Billing Guidelines for Global Surgery Modifiers

1. Billing Guidelines for Global Surgery Modifiers Medical Billers and Coders

2. The global surgical package, also called global surgery, includes all the necessary services normally furnished by a surgeon before, during, and after a procedure. Medicare payment for a surgical procedure includes the pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative services routinely performed by the surgeon or by members of the same group with the same specialty. Physicians in the same group practice who are in the same specialty must bill and be paid as though they were a single physician. Use following billing guidelines for global surgery modifiers, as these modifiers are used by physicians to indicate a billed service is not part of a global surgical package and is eligible for separate reimbursement.

3. Use Following Billing Guidelines for Global Surgery Modifiers • Modifier ‘-24’ • Modifier ‘-25’ • Modifier ‘-57’ • Modifier ‘-58’ • Modifier ‘-59’ • Modifier ‘-78’ • Modifier ‘-79’ 

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