AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 5 (May)

Coding Clarification: Frequently Asked Questions - Medicine: Ophthalmology (May 2015)

May 2015 page 9 Coding Clarification: Frequently Asked Questions - Medicine: Ophthalmology The following question was published in the December 2014 CPT® Assistant newsletter. Because physicians and other qualified health care professionals of any specialty may use the codes in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set, the answer to the question should not have been specialty specific. See the original question and revised answer below: Question: When an ophthalmologic photographer takes fundus autofluorescent (AF) images without the need for intravenous fluorescein or indocyanine green dye, how would AF imaging be reported? The revised answer should read: Answer: Code...

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