Top 3 Challenges With Optometry Billing Services

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Nowadays, the financial health of your eye care
practice depends more on the continuous cash
flows than ever. In fact, keeping up with
proactive optometric billing solutions in this
ever-changing industry is putting strains on the
optometrists and their staff worldwide. All this
have resulted in either the closure of many
eyecare practices or alteration of office hours
as per the guidelines from AAO,CDC, and
AOA. Thats why there is a need to focus more on
the performance of claim audits before it is too
late to receive the complete amount of
reimbursements. One such move of the claim audits
is to understand the challenges faced by the
optometry practices in billing and coding their
tasks. Lets have a deep understanding of the top
3 challenges faced by the optometrists in billing
and coding their services
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•  Some of the frequently used modifiers for
  optometry practices include
• RT/LT for the right and left eye or lid along
  with the E1-E4 modifiers used for differentiating
  the right and left inferior and superior lids.
• -24 modifier is applicable when a doctor
  undertakes an office visit during the period of
  an unrelated procedure. For instance, a visit
  performed by a doctor when a patient who had an
  eye cataract surgery in the last 90 days and
  comes up with an unrelated ocular issue in the
  other eye.
• To get the reimbursement for the office visit,
  you have to add a -24 modifier while submitting
  the claim to the payer.
• -25 modifiers are used for performing two
  unrelated and separate eye procedures on the same
  day.
• -55 modifiers are necessary to be used when you
  co-manage a surgical eye procedure and perform
  only the post-operative care with a surgeon.

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• Conclusion
• Being a billing service provider and an optometry
  expert is a different thing. How can you expect
  yourself as an optometry expert to undertake
  medical billing and coding like a pro? Thats why
  many optometrists choose to outsource optometry
  billing services to professional billers and
  coders simply to avoid claim denials and other
  data recording errors. In fact, optometry billing
  requires high-quality specific billing and
  coding, which is something not every billing
  service provider can handle. Therefore,
  outsourcing to the 24/7 Medical Billing Services
  is the solution to your problem that has a team
  of specialists with updated knowledge of all the
  specific requirements.

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