For Surgeons

For Orthopaedic Surgeons

Operative notes across the specialties: the catalog spans orthopaedics, spine, general surgery, ENT, urology, and gynecology, with the E/M engine covering your clinic days. The four places surgical work leaks credit, each fixed with one documented sentence.

Code an op note now or check an office note

New tool: TJA Complication Navigator, findings to diagnoses to what CMS counts. Quick answer version: CPT 27829, syndesmosis fixation coded right.

The bottom line
Four leak points, each fixed with one documented sentence.
A procedure plus a visit
Modifier 25 pays only for separate work. The injected joint never buys the visit level; a second problem managed in its own right does.
Fracture care without the OR
Closed treatment codes carry a 90 day global and often outpace visit-by-visit coding. The calculator shows both paths side by side.
Visits inside a global period
Routine postop care is 99024. Unrelated problems pay with modifier 24 when the note makes the distinction obvious.
See the surgical engine work
Fifteen worked examples: bundling verdicts, add-on rules, modifiers, and laterality, generated live from the shipped engine.
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