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Coding Quiz:

Can You Untangle These Bleph Repair Scenarios?

Published on Wed May 21, 2014

Try your hand at coding these procedures, and then compare your answers with our experts’. Blepharoptosis repair procedures can bring a lot of revenue into your practice, but coding them can be fraught with danger. Payers are looking for reasons to deny your claim, in the absence of evidence that the ophthalmic surgeon performed the procedure for medical necessity, not [...]
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