Coding & Reimbursement
Resources you need to appropriately address all aspects of coding and reimbursement essential for practice income as well as adherence with federal regulations.

New in Coding
•  Q&A from the Jan. 12 Coding Update Webinar
•  Avastin Update
•  Consult-Code Elimination Updates
•  ICD-10 Readiness
•  2010 Coding Update Webinar (ARCHIVED)
•  2010 PQRI Updates
•  Medicare/CMS News

Coding Tools
•  Accessing Your Purchased Online Products
•  Revised ABN
•  CCI 16.0 
•  Remittance Advice Remarks
•  Medicare/CMS Resources
•  NPI Locators

Codequest Seminars

•  2010 Agenda & Schedule

Ophthalmic Coding Specialists
•  OCS Exam
•  Test Your Coding Knowledge


Bulletins
•  Newsletters page
•  Archive



bullet  New in Coding

Q&A from the Jan. 12 Coding Update Webinar

Avastin Update - Patients Win with Immediate Avastin Payment Reversal

Consult-Code Elimination Updates:

ICD-10 Readiness: Get tools and information to help you with the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10, visit www.aao.org/icd10.

2010 Ophthalmology Coding Update Webinar (ARCHIVED) (Academy or AAOE login required) Order CD-ROM with synchronized Power Point slides and audio or 60 day on-demand multimedia recording of the Jan. 12 webinar designed to help you identify the new coding rules and regulations to appropriately code for proper reimbursement.

PQRI Updates
  • CMS has released the final measure specifications for 2010 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. Visit the Academy's Advocacy page for all PQRI Updates.
  • 2010 PQRI & E-Prescribing Update Webinar (ARCHIVED) (Academy or AAOE login required) FREE on-demand recording of the Jan. 5 Webinar.
  • Introduction to PQRI Webinar (ARCHIVED) (Academy or AAOE login required) Order CD-ROM with synchronized Power Point slides and audio or 60 day on-demand multimedia recording of the Dec. 8 webinar designed to help those practices who are first time participants in PQRI reporting.  

Medicare/CMS News

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bullet Coding Tools

Accessing your purchased online products
Return to the Academy home page and login to your account. Once you are successfully logged in, click on “Online Products” and then on “See all Online Products” from the choices listed below your name. This will display the online products to which you have access.

Revised Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) replaces the existing ABN-G, ABN-L and NEMB (Form CMS-20007).

Correct Coding Initiative Version 16.0

Remittance Advice Remarks (PDF 56K)

Appeal the Claim, Tips from the AMA (PDF 1.49MB)

Medicare/CMS Resources

National Provider Identification Locators

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bullet CODEquest Seminars

CODEquest Ophthalmic Coding College 2010 Attend a CODEquest half-day ophthalmic coding seminar sponsored by AAOE and your state or subspecialty society.


bullet Ophthalmic Coding Specialists (OCS)

Ophthalmic Coding Specialist Exam Reassure yourself that your coding knowledge is current.

Test your Coding Competence(PDF 109K)


bullet Bulletins

Visit our Newsletters page for links to the current issue of AAOE News, The Coding Bulletin, Executive Update and Techniques. 

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Questions? E-mail coding@aao.org

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