Surgery
These are the four locations Dr. Ahmad operates at.
What are Inova Fair oaks hospital , Northern Virginia eye surgery center, Fairfax surgery center, and Reston surgery center?
Coding is primarily used in this aspect of workflow in a medical office.
What is billing?
This photo based software must be updated for each patient prior to them coming in, then double checked prior to them being seen by the doctor.
What is image management?
A majority of our patients have this insurance.
What is Medicare?
The key to success and a well functioning team.
What is communication?
The number of hours a patient must not eat or drink before surgery.
What is 8 to 10?
This is the uniform language for coding medical services and procedures used by our office and others.
What are CPT Codes?
No one should leave the office until this is complete.
What is the daily task list?
This can be obtained for an out of network patient so that their insurance will cover their visit.
What is a prior authorization?
Patients should not do this water based activity for at least 2 weeks after surgery.
What is swimming in a public pool?
The place the exact arrival time can be found for a patients surgery.
What is the surgery spreadsheet?
This is the modifier used to indicate a non-post operative related assessment was done during the global period.
What is modifier 24
These 2 things must be added for all post op patients before they see the doctor.
What is the global period and post op plan?
This is a plan for Medicare patients that also provides them with prescription coverage. If a patient has this plan, we do not accept their Medicare card.
What are Medicare Advantage plans?
We are only in network with these two plans as a secondary to Medicare.
What are Tricare and Medicaid?
Patients on blood thinners should stop them this many days prior to their surgery unless otherwise directed by their cardiologist.
What is 3 to 4 days??
What is the CPT code for the 2 scans we do on all New Patients that are NOT allowed to be billed on the same day - one must be removed.
What are 92133 and 92134?
This must be unselected for every impression while preparing a laser, post op etc chart.
What are all the non-glaucoma counselings?
This is the information provided by the insurance company giving the patient status would be insurance, start date and covered services information when requested.
What is elegibility and benefits?
What is nighttime, unless otherwise directed by the doctor?
These are the 3 drops used after incisional surgery for most patients.
What are Ofloxacin, Prednisolone, and Atropine
The ICD-10 code for glaucoma diagnoses start with these 3 characters.
What are H 4 and 0
H40.
This is the global period for a procedure'/surgery done in the OR.
What is 90 days?
The place of service (POS) code for an ophthalmologist's office.
What is POS code 11?
This is the act that created a standard of patient privacy to protect their information from being disclosed without their prior consent.
What is HIPAA?