Many doctors ask me how to properly bill a keratoconus specialty contact lens fitting to insurance. There are a few differences when it comes to submitting the contact lens fitting to medical insurance vs. vision insurance. However, the most COMMON CPT code that you will use is: 92072 (Fitting of Contact Lens for Management of Keratoconus, Initial Fitting). Note - this is a BILATERAL code, meaning that you use this code to bill for both eyes. If you are only fitting one eye, make sure to use a modifier. Whether you are billing vision or medical insurance, 92072 will often be the code you will ..read more

Profiting from Specialty Lenses Specialty contact lenses such as custom soft lenses, gas permeable lenses, hybrid lenses, and scleral lenses can be life changing for patients. As rewarding as it is to help these patients, it is equally as important to ensure that your fees and reimbursement are healthy to generate a profit. Gasp – the P word?! Yes, it is very important that the services and products you offer in your office are profitable. If we wanted to give away eye care for free, we would volunteer at a free clinic or go on mission trips. We have to be realistic and understand that it is o ..read more

When I first completed my cornea and contact lens residency, I was eager to start fitting specialty contact lenses! I got my first job in Arizona at a private practice. This practice did not fit any specialty contact lenses at all. Most of my day was filled with comprehensive eye exams, soft contact lens fittings, glasses, pre and post op care for cataract surgeries and refractive surgeries, and medical eye exams. Even though the practice was located in a small, rural town (about 50,000 people total population), I was determined to figure out a way to integrate specialty contact lenses into th ..read more

The Ampleye scleral lens from Art Optical is a great scleral lens option. I’ve fit hundreds of patients into this lens over my career. To help those first starting out, I created a PDF with a few tips. This document was created by me for YOU. I truly care about other doctors’ success with scleral lenses, and I hope that you find these tips useful if you fit the Ampleye scleral lens. Enjoy! Download Dr. Woo's Ampleye Tips ..read more

Here is the case report for our scleral lens patient with higher order aberration optics that we did not get to cover during the Irregular Cornea Workshop. We were able to fit a keratooconus patient into a specialty contact lens and he acheived 20/20 vision ..read more

By Stephanie Woo, OD, FAAO, FSLS Dec. 30, 2020 Starting a practice cold is not the for the faint of heart. It comes with challenges, from equipping the office, to recruiting the right support staff team, marketing the new practice, and beyond. Here are several lessons I learned from the experience of opening my practice cold, some of which I wish I known to begin with. Prepare for Unexpected Costs When preparing your business plan for the bank, add an additional 20 percent extra on top of the amount you are requesting. This will help cover additional fees that you were not aware of or expectin ..read more

Click here to watch the webinar Full dictaction of the webinar: Ed Bennett: Good evening, everyone and welcome to the GP Lens Institute's monthly educational webinar. My name is Ed Bennett and I'm the executive director of the GPLI. As you know, the GP Lens Institute is the educational division of the contact lens Manufacturers Association. It was independent laboratories and … manufacturers who responsible for the high quality GP and custom soft lenses we see on the market today. If you're new to the webinar, we thank you for attending, you know, have the opportunity in a few times during the ..read more

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2020 was supposed to be the year of vision, and we approached it with great excitement, but never in our wildest dreams did we expect to face what we're experiencing now. And who knows what the future will bring? That said, one huge takeaway we have learned is the source of our income: contact lenses. In particular, we have learned to be proactive by approaching our contact lens patients who need lenses now or in the near future. If we don't, companies out there are willing and able to take over the contact lens business, especially for standard lenses. Although rewarding, building a successfu ..read more

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