Follow these steps to ensure proper payment for drug injections. Although many of your top-billed codes likely involve eye exams and surgeries, you shouldn’t discount HCPCS Level II codes and the impact drug injections can have on your practice’s bottom [...]
Document 3 key items for clean claims. Ballooning lab utilization and questionable “add on” testing has recently put labs under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) microscope. Read on to see how two [...]
Prepare now for the end of the PHE, experts warn. With other issues dominating the federal healthcare landscape, you may have pushed COVID-19 to the backburner. But, the virus is still there, twisting and turning, and federal policies are still [...]
Note the MIPS 2018 submissions vary according to how you submit measures. As the year comes to a close, it’s a great time to review new proposals, plans, and programs, heading into 2019. Put these three important dates on your [...]
Question: In a patient who reported for third nerve palsy, our physician did an MRA of the brain. During this procedure, the examination of the arterial vasculature of the posterior fossa and Circle of Willis region was done. How can we [...]
Question: Our physician did an MRA of the brain in a patient with third nerve palsy. During this procedure, he did a complete magnetic resonance examination of the arterial vasculature of the posterior fossa and Circle of Willis region. How [...]
Question: Our physician did an MRA of the brain in a patient with third nerve palsy. During this procedure, he did a complete magnetic resonance examination of the arterial vasculature of the posterior fossa and Circle of Willis region. How can [...]
Keep on top of bilateral rules, diagnoses, and separate procedures to keep your claims straight ahead. With 12 ocular muscles potentially involved, it can get kind of confusing for an ophthalmology coder staring down a strabismus procedure. Could one of [...]
New diagnosis codes specify which eye is affected. When ICD-10 becomes effective, you’ll have a few more options for coding strabismus, particularly esotropia and exotropia. Here are the details you’ll need to properly report the new codes. Under ICD-9, both [...]
Question: My optometrist wants to code for a “detailed evaluation of EOM function.” The diagnosis was “convergence insufficiency.” Is there a code for this? Can we code it with an eye exam? Washington Subscriber Answer: You can report 92060 (Sensorimotor [...]
