Bandage Contact Lens Basics – Ophthalmology Management
The placement of therapeutic bandage contact lenses have undergone coding changes. I’ll review the reimbursement challenges here.
This article answers the following questions:
- What is a bandage contact lens?
- When will Medicare cover a BCL?
- How is a BCL billed?
- What other reimbursement challenges should we expect?
This article was published in Ophthalmology Management’s Coding & Reimbursement column, which is written by Corcoran’s Executive Vice-President, Suzanne Corcoran, COE. To view the entire article in Ophthalmology Management, click on the link below:
http://www.ophthalmologymanagement.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=107206