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Ophthalmology and Optometry Coding Alert

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New Blepharitis, Eyelid Cancer Codes to Debut Oct. 1

Published on Wed Jul 25, 2018

No other specialty has as many new codes as ophthalmology this year. If you’ve become accustomed to glossing over ICD-10 updates every October since they don’t usually have a huge impact on eye care practices, know that those days are over. Effective Oct. 1, coders have 320 new diagnosis codes to choose from, and you’ll find that 172 codes have [...]
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