AMA CPT® Assistant - 2014 Issue 5 (May)

Ophthalmology Changes in CPT 2014 (May 2014)

May 2014 pages 5-6 Ophthalmology Changes in CPT 2014 Numerous changes were made to the ophthalmology services codes in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2014 code set. This article provides an overview of these changes. Revised Codes 65778Placement of amniotic membrane on the ocular surface; without sutures 65779single layer, sutured Before CPT 2014, in the Eye and Ocular Adnexa subsection, the descriptors for codes 65778 and 65779 included "for wound healing," thereby limiting the use of these codes. For CPT 2014 that language was revised to eliminate this restriction. Further, for code 65778 the term "self-retaining" was...

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