CPT^® 65782, Under Other Procedures on the Cornea

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 65782 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Other Procedures on the Cornea.

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In this procedure, the provider uses a limbal conjunctival autograft from one of the patient’s eyes and transplants it to the other eye to reconstruct the surface of a patient’s eye that injury or disease damaged.

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Help in coding op report

You are correct 65426 describes the surgery performed. The code selected by the physician 65782 is ocular surface reconstruction limbal conjunctival autograft. Coders Desk reference states this is don... [ Read More ]

Help in coding op report

[b]65782 is correct[/b] the 65400 states excision of lesion, cornea..except the pterygium which is an incorrect code. The 65782 is more appropriate to use and includes obtaining the graft.... [ Read More ]

Help in coding op report

Hello fellow coders, Looking for your opinion , any and all will be so appreciated. Preoperative DX: Recurrent pteryguim, right eye Post operative DX: same Operative Procedure: Conjuntival reconstru... [ Read More ]

bleb revision with amniotic membrane graft

[COLOR="Blue"]Patient had a bleb revision with amniotic membrane graft. IT is medicare patient. should i use 66185 ? ,someone told me to use 65782 to cover the cost of graft, would anyone use one o... [ Read More ]

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