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Oct 26th, 2011 - lindalouise55

Return E & M during post op period

patient had skin tags removed (10 day global) and before post op period ended he came back with a complication of the removal and was prescribed Bactrim. Would we be able to code and E & M for this?

Oct 27th, 2011 - Codapedia Editor 1,399 

re: Return E & M during post op period

Not if it is a Medicare patient-- complications are part of the global.
You have a chance if it is commercial : modifier 24 with the infection diagnosis



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