The global period includes all necessary services normally furnished by a surgeon before, during, and after a procedure. Medicare payment for a surgical procedure includes the pre-, intra-, 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.

Resources

The following documents provide information on Global Period functionality.

• Global Period - (Handout) Global Period notices will appear in Hyperspace when a patient has had a recent qualifying procedure performed. While all providers will see these notices, some providers will not be impacted by the significance of the alerts.

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