Payments under local carrier jurisdiction for intraocular lenses implanted in a physician's office are subject to change in 2003, thanks to CMS' reasonable-charge instructions issued Oct. 11. Expect your local carriers to publish this information in their next scheduled bulletins and to post it on their Web sites as supplier notification of the payment adjustments.
Here are the ophthalmology-related codes subject to the inflation-indexed charge of 1.1 percent: