A patient returns to the physician's office with flulike symptoms during the postoperative period for an appendectomy performed 1 month ago. Which modifier would need to be appended to today's office visit?

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Modifier -24 is used to indicate that a patient's visit is unrelated to a procedure that was performed within the global period, which is the case for a patient returning with flu-like symptoms after an appendectomy.

A Patient Returns to the Physician's Office with Flulike Symptoms