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CPT® 65782, Under Other Procedures on the Cornea

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 65782 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Other Procedures on the Cornea.

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In this procedure, the provider uses a limbal conjunctival autograft from one of the patient’s eyes and transplants it to the other eye to reconstruct the surface of a patient’s eye that injury or disease damaged. 

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You are correct 65426 describes the surgery performed. The code selected by the physician 65782 is ocular surface reconstruction limbal conjunctival autograft. Coders Desk reference states this is don... [ Read More ]
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[b]65782 is correct[/b] the 65400 states excision of lesion, cornea..except the pterygium which is an incorrect code. The 65782 is more appropriate to use and includes obtaining the graft.... [ Read More ]
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Hello fellow coders, Looking for your opinion , any and all will be so appreciated. Preoperative DX: Recurrent pteryguim, right eye Post operative DX: same Operative Procedure: Conjuntival reconstru... [ Read More ]
bleb revision with amniotic membrane graft
[COLOR="Blue"]Patient had a bleb revision with amniotic membrane graft. IT is medicare patient. should i use 66185 ? ,someone told me to use 65782 to cover the cost of graft, would anyone use one o... [ Read More ]
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