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CCI 19.0 Update:

0308T Bundles: Temporary Ocular Telescope Code Included in Dozens of Eye Codes

Published on Mon Jan 21, 2013

Watch for documentation of medical necessity to break bundles. Ophthalmic surgeons in the vanguard of high-tech treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) may already be familiar with ocular telescope prosthesis technology, a tiny telescopic eye implant that gained FDA approval a couple of years ago. The Correct Coding Initiative is certainly familiar with the temporary CPT® code introduced in mid-2012 [...]
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