Ophthalmology and Optometry Coding Alert

Acquaint yourself with the top 30 diagnoses that your practice sees and you'll get a head start toward compliance.If you've taken a look at the ICD-10 book, you know that it would be virtually impossible to memorize all of the codes that it contains. But preparing for ICD-10 won't require you to even try to know the codes by heart, CMS reps indicated during the August 3 CMS call, "ICD-10 Implementation Strategies for Physicians."Take heart: Switching to ICD-10 will not require practitioners to learn new code sets--"in fact, most practitioners probably don't know many ICD-9 codes by heart, so they won't be expected to memorize ICD-10 codes either, said Daniel Duvall, MD, medical officer with CMS's Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group, during the call.What do physicians need to do for the conversion? To prepare for ICD-10, doctors will need to look at the codes they use most frequently in their [...]