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Use 7th Characters to Identify POAG Stages

Published on Thu Oct 29, 2026

Question: Our ophthalmologist diagnosed a patient with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), but the right eye is documented as moderate stage and the left eye is noted as severe stage. Should we use a bilateral diagnosis code, or do we report each eye individually? Texas Subscriber Answer: You will assign a separate code for each eye for this case. Assign H40.1112 [...]
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