Tag: Modifier 56

impact urology practices

Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 2025: Urology Practice Impact

urology practices: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2025 on July 10, 2024. This outlines potential payment adjustments and policy changes that would take effect starting January 1, 2025. A public comment period will follow, during which CMS will gather feedback to inform the final […]
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Surgical Procedure

How to code global surgery modifiers 54, 55, and 56

To understand these modifiers, we first need to review the surgery global period. All medical procedures that include a global period are made up of three parts, explained in more detail later in the article: Pre-operative services Intra-operative services, and Post-operative care. If a physician does not perform all three parts of the service, compliant […]
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