Surgical Package and Global Period General surgeons have a wide variety of responsibilities that include treating injuries, correcting deformities, and treating diseases primarily through operations. General surgeons routinely perform many kinds of operations. Knowledgeable and highly trained about anatomy and a range of diseases, general surgeons perform operations from the skin to other body organs. Imagine that you’re working for a busy general surgeon’s office. You are responsible for the scheduling and coding for many of the surgeries done in this office. The weekly reading provides you with some very useful information on the surgical package and global period. Apply coding concepts related to surgical package and Global Period. Include the following aspects in the discussion: Provide a definition of “surgical package” and include what services might be included in addition to the actual surgical procedure. Review CMS categorizes surgeries as major and minor and established 3 “global periods”. What are the 3 global periods (not already provided in 3-2-1 Code It or mentioned in another students posting) Provide a surgery CPT code and description example for each of the three Discuss why the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) establish these descriptions in 1992.
