tci E/M Coding Alert - 2018 Issue 1

Specialty Spotlight: Ophthalmology & Optometry: Look to Documentation for the Right E/M, Eye Code Decision

Hint: Payer guidelines for diagnostic and treatment programs are key. No matter what your specialty, office visit coding is always challenging. For ophthalmology and optometry coders, that challenge often means having to choose between the familiar 99201-99215 E/M codes and two other services that are specialty specific. Codes 92002 (Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation with initiation of diagnostic and treatment program...) through 92014 (Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation with initiation or continuation of diagnostic and treatment program...) are unique to the profession, creating an added headache when coders document ophthalmological services to their payers. So...

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