Understand the Global Surgical Package

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Event Information

Product format Pre Recorded Event
Presenter Elin Baklid-Kunz, MBA, CPC, CCS
CEU 1 AAPC CEU Approved
Conference Date Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Aired Time (ET) 1 pm ET | 12 pm CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT
Length 60 Minutes

Product Description

To Bill Or Not: What's In The Global Surgical Package


E/M services during global surgery periods have been targeted for review by both the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs).

Join Elin Baklid-Kunz, MBA, CPC, CCS in this 60 minutes event where she will provide you insights of the global surgical package. You will also learn how to use modifiers to correctly bill for services during the global period.

In this content-rich event, our expert speaker will review the components of the global surgical package and payment rules for minor surgeries, endoscopies and global surgical packages that are split between two or more physicians. Get the understanding of differences between Medicare and CPT.

You’ll walk away with a good understanding of:

  • Definition of Medicare’s global surgical package and how to determine the global period. 
  • Components of the global surgical package.
  • How to code any related or unrelated service during the global period.
  • Identifying the commonly used modifiers.
  • Reporting services that are split between two or more physicians.
  • Assessing your risk for RAC audits and review common examples and grey areas.

Ask a question at the Q&A session following the live event and get advice unique to your situation, directly from our expert speaker.

Who should attend? Coding professionals, billing specialist, practice managers, HIM directors, compliance officers, case managers and, physicians

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About the Speaker

Elin Baklid-Kunz, MBA, CPC, CCS, is Director of Physician Services for a large health  system in Florida . Kunz has 15 years of healthcare experience, including seven years in finance and four years in compliance. She is a workshop presenter for the American Academy of Professional Coders and a freelance author for HCPro, Inc. writing e-learning courses for JustCoding.com. She is also an adjunct professor at Seminole Community College where she teaches courses pertaining to healthcare reimbursement and serves on the advisory committee for the health information management program.


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