AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 1 (January)

Reporting Aqueous Shunt Procedures and Visual Field Assessmen (January 2015)

January 2015 pages 10-11 Reporting Aqueous Shunt Procedures and Visual Field Assessment The Aqueous Shunt subsection in the Surgery/Eye and Ocular Adnexa section of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2015 code set has been re-evaluated because of the frequency of graft utilization when performing aqueous shunt procedures. Two new codes were added and two existing codes were revised to better reflect current medical practice. In addition, two new codes were added in the Category III section of the 2015 CPTcode set to reflect current medical practice using new technology methods for reporting visual field assessments. This article provides...

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