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: Complication and Readmission Navigator, findings to diagnoses to what CMS counts, now with hip fracture. 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.