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Strabismus:

Is One of These Strabismus Myths Making Your Coding Askew?

Published on Tue Feb 03, 2015

Keep on top of bilateral rules, diagnoses, and separate procedures to keep your claims straight ahead. With 12 ocular muscles potentially involved, it can get kind of confusing for an ophthalmology coder staring down a strabismus procedure. Could one of these myths be costing your practice hundreds? Myth: Report 67312 for Bilateral Horizontal Muscles Reality: In strabismus surgery, the ophthalmic [...]
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