CPT® 2012 Update: 92070 For Therapeutic Contacts? Not Anymore

New codes 92071 and 92072 carry the load for lens prescriptions for keratoconus and OSD .

Although you can't bill Medicare for regular refractive lenses, savvy ophthalmology coders know that you can expect reimbursement for contact lens prescriptions to treat keratoconus (ICD-9 codes 371.60-371.62) and ocular surface disorders (OSDs) like corneal abrasions and dry eye. However, what coders currently know is changing in 2012, with the deletion of one familiar CPT® code and the introduction of two new ones.

92070 no more: The CPT® 2012 manual deletes the ophthalmology coder's standby for therapeutic contact lenses, 92070 (Fitting of contact lens [...]

- Published on 2011-12-13