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Ophthalmology and Optometry Coding Alert

Inpatient Coding:

What You Don't Know About Hospital Care Coding Could Hurt You

Published on Tue Jun 27, 2017

Consider these 4 quick tips to nail down the right code for inpatient visits. Many eye care coders are so accustomed to reporting the ophthalmological services and outpatient E/M codes that they become stumped when something outside of those code ranges arise. However, when your physician sees a patient in the hospital, you’ll have to turn to the inpatient codes [...]
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