Medical Necessity:
Keep an Eye on Guidelines for Ophthalmic Diagnosis Coding
Published on Fri Dec 06, 2013
You’re not quite done with ICD-9 yet, so follow these tips for more claims success. You won’t get paid for your ophthalmic surgeon’s work if you only focus on what he did; you also need to focus on why he did it. Choosing the right ICD-9 code tells the “why” story — and that’s the basis for demonstrating medical necessity [...]