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Coding Case Study:

Choose IOL Removal Codes Based on Portion, Approach

Published on Wed Jul 17, 2019

Watch that you don’t confuse an IOL with a natural lens—or that could blur your code choices. When a patient patient has a dislocated intraocular lens (IOL), you may have questions about how to report all the work involved in correcting the problem. Have a look at this op report for IOL removal we recently received from a subscriber and [...]
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