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Recipients still have time to report Provider Relief Fund payments late if they can prove extenuating circumstances. If you’re one of the thousands of providers who missed the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting deadline for Period 2, you have a limited window of time to make it right. Providers have until May 13 by 11:59 […]
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The Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) program, slated to begin Jan. 1, 2021, has been postponed. A notice on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website states that the educational and operations testing period will now continue through 2021. “We encourage stakeholders to use this period to learn, test and prepare for the AUC […]
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Just wanted a second opinion.
Pain management during the global period of a procedure, if related to that procedure, is not separately reportable. If a provider other than the operating provider performs follow-up care, you must be careful to avoid “unbundling” of that follow-up care. The global period, or global surgical package, bundles all care typically related to surgical service […]
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I was wondering if anyone could offer any guidance please. I have a Dr. that did 2 debridements on a pt that is in house.
On their rounding days they are applying a would vac/Negative pressure therapy. I was under the impression that this
would get bundled into the 90 day global. I know that the Hospital (PT Department) can charge for it but the Dr. is wanting
to charge for it. Any feed back would be greatly appreciated!
Now day after (01-29-19) provider billed 99232-24-57 as they are seeing the member in post-op but also made same day decision for another 90-day procedure (61510-58).
How should the 01-28-19 DOS be billed as it is the day prior to decision of the major surgery and provider is indicating unrelated and decision was made the next day/same day 01-29-19?
01-28-19 99232-24 denied because the visit was billed by the same provider within the 61510’s pre-operative period.
01-29-19 99232-24-57
01-29-19 61510-58
Thanks!