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Don't Know Your Lateral From Your Inferior Rectus Muscles? Strabismus Pay Might Elude You

Published on Tue Nov 22, 2016

Nail down your anatomic knowledge now and collect appropriately later. Orthopedic coders may think they are the only ones who have to nail down the different muscles before they can choose a code, but the reality is that ophthalmology coders will need to know the 12 muscles that are involved in strabismus surgeries. By misidentifying any of these muscles, you [...]
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