Optometry Coding & Billing Alert
Correction
Published on Thu Nov 27, 2014 
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The answer to the “You Be the Expert” question in the Optometry Coding & Billing Alert Vol. 12 No. 10, “Single Code’s the Key for Multiple FBs,” suggested 871.6 (Penetration of eyeball with [nonmagnetic] foreign body) as the ICD-9 code to represent non-magnetic ocular foreign bodies in the patient’s cornea. The appropriate ICD-9 code would be 930.0 (Corneal foreign body). We apologize for our error.
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