Outpatient optometric services are compensable when provided in the optometrist’s office, the office of another optometrist during the other optometrist’s temporary absence from practice, a hospital, a nursing home or in the patient’s home when the patient is physically incapable of coming to the optometrist’s office. Payment is subject to the conditions and limitations established in § § 1147.51, 1147.53 and 1147.54 (relating to general payment policy; limitations on payment; and noncompensable services and items) and Chapter 1150 (relating to MA Program payment policies) and the MA Program Fee Schedule.
The provisions of this § 1147.12 adopted January 25, 1980, effective February 1, 1980, 10 Pa.B. 264; amended December 23, 1983, effective January 1, 1983, 13 Pa.B. 3932; amended September 30, 1988, effective October 1, 1988, 18 Pa.B. 4418; amended August 3, 1990, effective immediately and apply retroactively to April 7, 1990, 20 Pa.B. 4196. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (130962).
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