tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2006 Issue 2

FBR Answers You Need to Know

Expert Q & A to satisfy your curiousity--and your bottom lineDon't lose your anatomical place--or your practice's deserved reimbursement--with tough foreign-body removal (FBR) cases. The type of removal and method may vary from patient to patient, but these field-tested answers will help you with the full range of possibilities.Question: Should the instrument the doctor used determine which code I choose when the physician performs an FBR in the cornea or conjunctiva of a patient's eye?Answer: Sometimes. For conjunctival foreign bodies, you will use code 65205 (Removal of foreign body, external eye; conjunctival superficial) or 65210 (... conjunctival...

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