Medicare will make payment for the lens based on reasonable cost for a conventional IOL. In addition, physicians inserting a P-C IOL or A-C IOL in an office setting may bill code V2632 (posterior chamber intraocular lens) for the IOL. 66985 – Insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis (secondary implant), not associated with concurrent cataract extraction.66984 – Extracapsular cataract removal with insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis (one stage procedure), manual or mechanical technique (e.g., irrigation and aspiration or phacoemulsification).66983 – Intracapsular cataract with insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis (one stage procedure).Physicians and hospitals must report one of the following Current Procedural Terminology (Procedure ) codes on the claim:Ħ6982 – Extracapsular cataract removal with insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis (one stage procedure), manual or mechanical technique (e.g., irrigation and aspiration or phacoemulsification), complex requiring devices or techniques not generally used in routine cataract surgery (e.g., iris expansion device, suture support for intraocular lens, or primary posterior capsulorrhexis) or performed on patients in the amblyogenic development stage.
