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Our ophthalmology practice has researched using E/M codes instead of Eye codes for visits. We understand the guidelines and are ready to implement them. What have other practices found helpful? I have been unsuccessful in finding any practical resources that focus on the actual method of transitioning.
Thank you for your input.
 
If your doctors have met the criteria to bill a code, then they should do so and start using the 99 codes. If they understand the guidelines needed to bill the E/M codes, then I really don't understand the need for some type of "transitioning." As the Nike commercials say, Just Do It!

Your practice is potentially leaving tens of thousand of dollars in allowable fees on the table every year. That should be enough to encourage the change in a period of fee stagnation.


Tom Cheezum, O.D., CPC, COPC
 
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