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Ophthalmology and Optometry Coding Alert

Ophthalmic Trauma Care:

Focus on 65205-65222 and 65270-65286 for Eye Injury Claims

Published on Fri Mar 20, 2015

Tip: Foreign body removal can be included in the corneal repair. Although it’s not nearly as traumatic as it is for the patient, coding for emergency treatment of eye injuries in the office can certainly be stressful for coders, especially faced with Medicare’s strict compliance guidelines.   When a patient rushes in with a corneal laceration from glass stuck in [...]
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