Coding references

General surgery: the codes and the rules.

Three tables for a surgical practice, each one a coder can check against the 2025 CMS and ICD-10-CM files, and the notes that come up every week.

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2025 files

Reference, not billing advice. The practice's coder confirms every code before a claim goes out.

The tables.

General surgery ICD-10 codes24 diagnosis codes the practice's callers bring.General surgery CPT codes and wRVUs15 procedure codes with the work RVU, plus office E/M.General surgery global periodsWhich procedures carry 0, 10 or 90 days, and what that includes.

The notes a coder repeats.

The 2023 anterior abdominal hernia codes (49591-49618) are chosen by total defect length and reducibility and carry a 0-day global; inguinal repair (49505) still carries 90 days.
A decision-for-surgery visit the day before or the day of a 90-day procedure takes modifier 57; without it the payer folds the visit into the global.
Laparoscopic procedures converted to open are reported with the open code only, with the conversion documented.

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