{"id":204,"date":"2013-03-19T18:55:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.cbspecialist.com\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2013-03-20T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:14:20","slug":"general-surgery-billing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/compliancebillingspecialist.com\/?page_id=204","title":{"rendered":"General Surgery Billing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you know what the true definition of a \u201cGlobal Surgical Package\u201d is?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Per <b>CMS January 2013 Update<\/b>, the definition consists of all necessary services performed by the provider before, during and after a surgical procedure.\u00a0 Medicare payment includes all applicable preoperative, intra-operative, and postoperative services, including care due to complications from the surgery.\u00a0 <b>Global Surgical Package<\/b> may be furnished in any setting, such as hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers (<b>ASCs<\/b>) and provider offices.\u00a0 Visits to a patient in an intensive care or critical care unit are also included if made by the surgeon.\u00a0 However, critical care services (99291-99292) are payable separately in some situations <b><i>(e.g., a seriously injured or burned patient who is critically ill and requires constant attendance by the provider.)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Surgeons require a <strong>Revenue Cycle Management <\/strong>company that understands the importance of CPT modifiers, global surgical days and evaluation and management billing.\u00a0 <strong>General Surgery Billing<\/strong> is lower volume higher dollar billing that requires attention to detail from entering the patient demographics to coding of the service and assignment of modifiers.\u00a0 Claim follow-up is also important with the timely filing limits payers have and the large balances generated by surgery practices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CBS<\/strong> provides a dedicated and c<b>ertified Medical Biller\/Coder<\/b> to your practice as well as providing constant communication as to issues and concerns regarding the claims for your patients whether it is in regards to <b>CPT, ICD-9\/ICD-10, and Modifier usage<\/b>.\u00a0 With <strong>CBS&#8217; <\/strong>weekly and monthly reports, you are never in the dark regarding your charges and revenue, which is the life line of your practice.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>If you would like to put our expertise to work for you, contact <\/i><\/b><strong><i>CBS<\/i><\/strong><b><i> today.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what the true definition of a \u201cGlobal Surgical Package\u201d is?\u00a0 Per CMS January 2013 Update, the definition consists of all necessary services performed by the provider before, during and after a surgical procedure.\u00a0 Medicare payment includes all applicable preoperative, intra-operative, and postoperative services, including care due to complications from the surgery.\u00a0 Global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliancebillingspecialist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliancebillingspecialist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliancebillingspecialist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compliancebillingspecialist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compliancebillingspecialist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/compliancebillingspecialist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/compliancebillingspecialist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliancebillingspecialist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}