AMA CPT® Assistant - 2003 Issue 7 (July)

Trabeculectomy: Filtering Surgery for Glaucoma (July 2003)

July 2003 pages 1-6 Trabeculectomy: Filtering Surgery for Glaucoma This article will focus on the filtration and drainage procedures most commonly performed to treat glaucoma. Because documentation for each procedure often involves similar technical terms and eye anatomy, along with certain key elements that distinguish each procedure, coders must be able to identify and understand those key distinctions to code appropriately. Compounding the difficulty is that several of the procedures can be performed at the same time and/or with cataract extraction. Other factors influencing coding are the frequent use of sometimes difficult to understand or outdated dictation templates, for...

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