Ophthalmology and Optometry Coding Alert

Part B Errors:

CMS: Ophthalmologists Among Specialties With Highest Error Rates for Office Visits

Don't make the same mistakes these practices did. Ophthalmologists frequently struggle with the question of whether to report eye care codes or E/M codes when treating patients, but new data suggests that more thought should go into E/M code selection when physicians go that route. That's the takeaway from a recent Medicare report, which states that ophthalmologists were among the [...]
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