Optometric Billing - Modernizing Exams to Detect Early Signs of Disease
- By Jasmin Vasquez
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- 24 Oct, 2017
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New technologies can help better detect glaucoma patients and suspects.
The U.S. prevalence of glaucoma in patients is suspected to rise 6.3 million by 2050. Jarett Mazzarella, OD and Justin Cole, OD write about how integrating newer technologies into optometry practices can help detect signs of early glaucoma and how it is integral for providing data to diagnose and begin early treatments. Clinicians can use many tools such as corneal hysteresis, OCT angiography, visual field testing and electrodiagnostics to help better detect the signs and begin treating patients to prevent them from going completely blind. How does modernizing technologies for detecting disease affect your optometric billing?
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How your optometric billing can help build your specialty clinic from the ground up.
Upgrading diagnostic tools to help improve your optometric billing.
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanning has come a long way in the development of its technology in the last two decades. How will these new advances in OCT affect how you practice optometry and your optometric billing?
"Everyone will come to you and you will be the one who refers them to different specialties". Maybe the eyes are more than just a window to the soul?
Eliminate or delegate things you spend your time on that don't improve your bottom line. Outsource things you must do well but can't/don't.
Received a question from a provider regarding Harvard Pilgrim
Some things to look for and some things to avoid when seeking optometric billing services.
When performing routine eye exams on Aetna Patients it is a good idea to get in the habit of using
Z01.00 OR Z01.01 as your diagnosis code INSTEAD of a code beginning with "H52". This is because many of Aetna's plans actually are set up to pay for routine eye exams but ONLY if the primary diagnosis is = Z01.00 OR Z01.01.
Please find a response written to one of our clients regarding the issue of billing Routine and Medical procedures to insurance companies on the same claim/ same date of service: