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Don't Be Blind to 3 Factors When Coding Ocular Foreign Body Removals

Published on Mon Jun 24, 2013

Look closely at the documentation for these clues to determine the right code assignment. A patient reports with a foreign body in her left eye. The ophthalmologist removes the FB and sends the patient home. This might look like a simple coding scenario, but there’s more to reporting ocular foreign body removal (FBR) than meets the eye. Your coding choice [...]
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