Identifying the Glaucoma Stage for Documenting with ICD-10
Adjusting to the ICD-10 is a challenge for any medical billing office, but one requirement that optometrists and ophthalmologists is particularly important: a glaucoma diagnosis is not simply a glaucoma diagnosis. Under the new ICD-10 requirements, glaucoma stage must be documented to code accurately with ICD-10. Under ICD-9 guidelines, a diagnosis of glaucoma often focused on the […]