Which statement correctly describes the Medicare Global Surgical Package for ENT procedures with a 0-, 10-, or 90-day global period?

Which statement correctly describes the Medicare Global Surgical Package for ENT procedures with a 0-, 10-, or 90-day global period?

• A. The global package bundles preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care into one payment; routine postoperative visits within the global period are included.
• B. It covers only intraoperative care and excludes preoperative care.
• C. It allows separate billing for postoperative visits during the global period.
• D. It requires separate modifiers for all services within the global period.

Answer: (A)

Medicare’s Global Surgical Package bundles the entire episode of care around a procedure with a global period. For ENT procedures that carry a 0-, 10-, or 90-day global period, this means preoperative evaluation, the actual surgery (intraoperative care), and postoperative care related to the surgery are all covered under one payment. Routine postoperative visits that occur within that global period are included in the single package, so they aren’t billed separately as separate E/M visits. This bundled approach stays in effect for the defined global period, regardless of whether the postoperative visits happen during the first day or several days later, as long as they’re related to the procedure. If a visit or service is unrelated to the surgery (or a separate procedure with its own global period is performed), those may be billed separately.

Medicare’s Global Surgical Package bundles the entire episode of care around a procedure with a global period. For ENT procedures that carry a 0-, 10-, or 90-day global period, this means preoperative evaluation, the actual surgery (intraoperative care), and postoperative care related to the surgery are all covered under one payment. Routine postoperative visits that occur within that global period are included in the single package, so they aren’t billed separately as separate E/M visits. This bundled approach stays in effect for the defined global period, regardless of whether the postoperative visits happen during the first day or several days later, as long as they’re related to the procedure. If a visit or service is unrelated to the surgery (or a separate procedure with its own global period is performed), those may be billed separately.