Your patient is readmitted to the hospital with cellulitis at the incisional site during the postoperative global period after a transmetatarsal amputation.   

You follow the patient for multiple daily visits.  No surgery performed. 

The only allowable coding option available refers to an "unrelated evaluation and management (E/M) service by the same physician or other qualified health care professional during a postoperative period."

Any diagnosis associated to the amputation will not qualify, only an "unrelated" one will. 

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