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Ophthalmology and Optometry Coding Alert

Extended Ophthalmoscopy:

Know the EO Rules to Safeguard Deserved Payment

Published on Tue Dec 01, 2015

Don’t let coding errors rob your practice of $28 each time. With approximately $28 at stake for each procedure (based on 0.76 RVUs multiplied by the 35.9335 conversion factor in 2015), CPT® codes 92225 (Ophthalmoscopy, extended, with retinal drawing [e.g., for retinal detachment, melanoma], with interpretation and report; initial) and 92226 (… subsequent) appear quite frequently in claims from many [...]
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