Modifier -24, Unrelated evaluation and management service by the same physician during
postoperative period.
As the modifier indicates, this is another modifier that you can only append with an E/M counter. It
indicates that the E/M encounter is not related during the global period.
Let's describe this modifier 24:
A pain specialist performed facet nerve destruction for the patient. During the normal, postoperative
global period, the patient came in to the office with severe knee pain due to fall on ice as evidenced
by the patient's subjective information. The pain specialist will then report that E/M encounter with the
patient by appending modifier 24 to indicate that encounter is not related during the postoperative
global period.
This modifier, like modifier 25 has no restriction as with the level of E/M code as long as it meets
medical necessity, all its components or are time-based.
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