Optometry Coding & Billing Alert
ICD-10 Bridge
Published on Thu Jan 19, 2012
Once ICD-10 is implemented in 2013, the diagnosis codes in the above story will be different. Check out this crosswalk for the correct borderline glaucoma diagnoses: Useful tool: Prepare for ICD-10 with Codify's ICD-10 Bridge, available exclusively on https://www.aapc.com/codes/. 
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