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Old 04-24-2017, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Liz22 View Post
Medicare and other insurers will pay for this exam IF they are done for a medical reason such as a macular check up etc. however St. Lukes has not been coding my refraction exams properly and I have paid for each and every one of them for the past 4 years and they are done approximately every 6 mos. The "refraction" eye exam I get has NOTHING to do with eye-glasses. It is done to check for loss of vision, but I have still have to pay for them.
Why don't you ask them to change the code? We've had that happen, where the code was wrong (not with eye specialist) and got the billing people to change the code.
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