ST. LOUIS—With all health care professionals scheduled to transition from the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) from ICD-9 on Oct. 1, 2015, the American Optometric Association (AOA) has released the 2015 ICD-10 coding bundle to help optometrists smoothly transition from one code set to another. Available through the AOA Marketplace, the bundle includes the 2015 AOA Codes for Optometry (ICD-10), the 2015 ICD-10 CM AOA Express Mapping Card (not sold separately), and the 2015 AMA CPT Professional Edition.

Created to help eyecare professionals learn how to make correct decisions when selecting diagnosis codes using the new ICD-10 system, this educational tool was designed to enable users to understand the purpose of ICD-10 and its relationship to the reimbursement process, understand and apply coding conventions when assigning codes, interpret basic coding guidelines for outpatient care, assign ICD-10 codes to the highest level of specificity, and properly sequence ICD-10 codes.