Optometric Billing - Spruce Up Your Clinic
- By Jasmin Vasquez
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- 20 Oct, 2017
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It may be time to upgrade your clinic's technology to stay ahead of the game.
Advances in clinical technology are helping optometrists to sooner detect diseases that may otherwise be undetectable. Last month a patient of Paul M. Karpecki, OD, without symptoms and 20/20 vision, was found to have a significant peripheral malignant melanoma. Upgrading basic tools such as handheld instruments and refractor systems can help in the early diagnoses of most life-threatening diseases; diseases like AMD (age-related macular degeneration) or glaucoma, for instance. Optometry is embracing new innovative technology in order to improve diagnostics. How can upgrading your diagnostic tools transfer into more robust optometric billing?
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How your optometric billing can help build your specialty clinic from the ground up.
Detection of early signs of glaucoma made easier with new technological advances.
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: