Medycoding

Medicare defines the global period as that period of time during which a physician may not bill for related office visits. The global period may be 90, 10, or 0 days. Global period count next after the day of surgery.

 

According to Medicare, a major surgery has a global period of 90 days, and a minor surgery has a global period of either 10 or 0 days. Thus, the time frame of, not the complexity of, the surgery determines whether a surgery is major or minor.