General Surgery Billing

Yes. All coding is performed by certified coders, and specialty assignment is deliberate rather than incidental — global surgical packages plus modifiers for staged, related, and unrelated procedures during the post-operative period.

Three causes account for most of it: post-operative visits billed inside the global period; assistant surgeon not supported by payer policy; staged procedure modifier omitted. Each is a documentation or process failure rather than a coverage dispute, which is why we report denials grouped by cause instead of as a single rate.

Assistant-at-surgery and co-surgeon rules change payment substantially and are among the most reviewed elements in the specialty. That shapes which denials are worth appealing and where the front-end effort should sit, so it drives how we staff the work rather than being background color.

No. Payment is decided by the payer, and any firm promising a collection rate is describing something it does not control. We commit to the process and to six reported numbers you can check against your own system.

Codes are assigned from the documentation the practice provides, and where the record does not support a code we raise a query rather than infer intent. The clinical record and the certification of medical necessity remain the practice's, and claims go out under the provider's own National Provider Identifier.