AMA CPT® Assistant - 2016 Issue 6 (June)

THEN and NOW: Repair of Retinal Detachment (June 2016)

June 2016 pages 6-7 Repair of Retinal Detachment THEN The following FAQ was published in the April 2009 issue of CPT® Assistant (p 9). Since then, revisions have been made for reporting retinal detachment repair in the Surgery: Posterior Segment subsection of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2016 codebook, which now makes this FAQ obsolete. Surgery: Eye and Ocular Adnexa (67112, 66940) Question: If a repair of retinal detachment is done by scleral buckling on a patient who has had a previous retinal detachment repair in the same eye, and an extracapsular lensectomy is performed during the same...

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