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Navigate the Nuances of Ophthalmic Ultrasound Coding

Published on Wed Mar 22, 2023

Find out when permanently recorded images are a must. When scouring eye imaging notes, you may see ultrasound mentioned in the documentation, or possibly one of its many aliases — A-scans and B-scans, modes, ophthalmic biometry, ocular echography — and if you don’t know how to translate these descriptions into the correct codes, you risk losing out on rightful reimbursement. [...]
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