General and family medicine · global periods
General and family medicine global periods.
The primary care procedures with a CMS global package, and how long it runs. Inside the package, routine post-operative visits are 99024; anything else needs the right modifier.
Procedures and their global period.
Global periods as assigned in the 2025 CMS Physician Fee Schedule. Commercial payers usually follow CMS but may not. Confirm before billing.
| Code | Description | Work RVU | Global |
|---|---|---|---|
20610 | Arthrocentesis or injection, major joint or bursa | 0.79 | 000 |
69210 | Removal of impacted cerumen requiring instrumentation, unilateral | 0.61 | 000 |
12001 | Simple repair of superficial wounds, 2.5 cm or less | 0.84 | 000 |
10060 | Incision and drainage of abscess, simple or single | 1.22 | 010 |
17110 | Destruction of benign lesions (warts), up to 14 | 0.70 | 010 |
11102 | Tangential (shave) biopsy of skin, single lesion | 0.66 | 000 |
000- 0-day global: the visit on the day of the procedure is included; visits afterwards are billed.
010- 10-day global: routine post-operative visits for 10 days are included in the fee.
Inside the package.
- Included: the day before (90-day only), the day of, routine post-operative visits (report 99024), dressing changes, suture removal and the usual complications treated in the office.
- Not included: a return to the operating room (modifier 78), an unrelated problem (24 for a visit, 79 for a procedure), a staged procedure (58), and the visit where surgery was decided (57 for 90-day, 25 for 10-day).
- The receptionist’s post-op confirmation calls and screening pages fall inside the package too; they cost the practice minutes, not claims.
CPT codes and wRVUsICD-10 codesAll general and family medicine references
A receptionist that knows primary care calls.
Post-op screening forms your surgeons approve, the on-call paged with answers, and confirmation calls before and after the operation.