207WX0200X — Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Ophthalmology

Specialization

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Section

Individual

Definition

A physician who specializes in oculofacial plastic and reconstructive surgery. This subspecialty combines orbital and periocular surgery with facial plastic surgery, and includes aesthetic and reconstructive surgery of the face, orbit, eyelid, and lacrimal system. Practitioners evaluate, diagnose and treat conditions involving the eyelids, brows, midface, orbits, lacrimal systems and surrounding and supporting structures of the face and neck.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Ophthalmology

These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.

• 207W00000XOphthalmology
• 207WX0009XGlaucoma Specialist
• 207WX0107XRetina Specialist
• 207WX0108XUveitis and Ocular Inflammatory Disease
• 207WX0109XNeuro-ophthalmology
• 207WX0110XPediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Specialist
• 207WX0120XCornea and External Diseases Specialist