Cosurgery for the Eye
The “Eye and Ocular Adnexa” section of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) includes scores of codes. Currently, if you were to use the CMS Physician Fee Schedule Search for those codes, you would find that 102 of them have a cosurgery indicator of 1. This means that two cosurgeons can each use modifier –62 to bill for the same procedure. These codes are as follows: 65091, 65093, 65103, 65105, 65110, 65112, 65114, 65125, 65130, 65175, 65265, 65273, 65290, 65710, 65730, 65750, 65755, 65756, 65780, 65781, 65782, 65850, 65865, 65870, 65875, 65920, 65930, 66150, 66160, 66170, 66172, 66174, 66175, 66180, 66220, 66225, 66500, 66680, 66852, 66920, 66940, 66985, 66986, 66999, 67005, 67010, 67015, 67025, 67027, 67030, 67036, 67039, 67040, 67041, 67042, 67043, 67107, 67108, 67112, 67113, 67120, 67121, 67250, 67255, 67299, 67312, 67318, 67331, 67332, 67334, 67335, 67343, 67399, 67400, 67412, 67414, 67420, 67440, 67445, 67450, 67550, 67570, 67599, 67902, 67903, 67904, 67950, 67971, 67973, 67974, 67999, 68320, 68325, 68335, 68362, 68399, 68525, 68540, 68720, 68745, 68750, and 68899.
No cosurgery. At time of press, the following codes from CPT’s “Eye and Ocular Adnexa” section have an indicator of 0, which means that cosurgeons are not permitted: 65101, 65135, 65140, 65150, 65155, 65205, 65210, 65220, 65222, 65235, 65260, 65270, 65272, 65275, 65280, 65285, 65286, 65400, 65410, 65420, 65426, 65430, 65435, 65436, 65450, 65600, 65710, 65757, 65770, 65772, 65775, 65778, 65779, 65800, 65805, 65810, 67975, 68020, 68040, 68100, 68110, 68115, 68130, 68135, 68200, 68326, 68328, 68330, 68340, 68360, 68371, 68400, 68420, 68440, 68500, 68505, 68510, 68520, 68530, 68550, 68700, 68705, 68760, 68761, 68770, 68801, 68810, 68811, 68815, 68816, 68840, and 68850.
Cosurgery doesn’t apply. At time of press, the following codes from CPT’s “Eye and Ocular Adnexa” section have an indicator of 9, which means that the concept of cosurgery doesn’t apply to the procedure: 65760, 65765, 65767, and 65771. (These are the codes for keratomileusis, keratophakia, epikeratoplasy, and radial keratotomy, respectively.)
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