Sep 1, 2026
Written By Elizabeth Cifers
You know how to treat retina patients. You should not need to become a professional coder to make sure the documentation accurately reflects the care you provided. And yet, somewhere between the exam lane and the claim, things have a way of getting complicated.
These aren't theoretical questions. They affect reimbursement, compliance, and what happens when a payer decides to take a closer look.
That's why I created Mastering Retina Documentation & Coding: From Exam to Claim.
You don't need to memorize a coding book. There are plenty of places to look up a CPT code. The harder part is understanding why a service is billable, what the documentation must demonstrate, and how your clinical decisions support a defensible claim.
That's what this course teaches: Clinical decision → documentation → coding → claim.
Those aren't separate processes. The claim should tell the same story as the care you provided. And yes, a claim can get paid even when that story isn't particularly good. "The payer paid it" is a pretty lousy compliance strategy.
Retina encounters are complex. Diagnostic testing. Intravitreal injections. Same-day E/M services and procedures. Global periods. Modifiers. Laterality. Drug documentation. Medical necessity. And often, several of them appear in the same chart.
The goal of this course isn't to turn physicians into coders.
The goal is to help you understand the why behind the rules so you can recognize when the documentation, coding, and clinical encounter don't line up. Because once you understand the why, you become a lot less dependent on templates, cheat sheets, inherited habits, and my personal favorite:
"We've always done it this way."
The course is self-paced, on demand, and built specifically around the documentation and coding issues that show up in retina practices.
Nine modules. Retina-specific examples. Practical application.
No generic coding lecture repackaged for ophthalmology, or a general ophthalmology course that includes a little bit of retina.
Until now, accessing the course required a practice to register, purchase physician and staff seats, and send invitations. That works when the entire practice is ready, but it's unnecessarily complicated when only one physician or staff member is ready to start.
So I changed it.
Physicians and staff can now select “For myself,” purchase their own course access for $1,000, and start immediately.
No practice manager.
No invitation code.
No waiting for your partners to decide whether they want to take it, too.
Practices can still purchase seats for multiple physicians and staff. If your practice enrolls later, your individual seat can move under the practice.
You don't need to know every CPT rule. You don't need to memorize every modifier.
But you should understand how the care you provide becomes the supporting documentation in the chart and how that documentation supports the claim.
That's exactly what Mastering Retina Documentation & Coding: From Exam to Claim was built to teach.
Want to bring the practice? Bring the practice.
Just you? That's fine too.
No committee meeting required.
Whether it's for you, a staff member, or your entire retina team, explore Mastering Retina Documentation & Coding: From Exam to Claim and see what's included.
👉Explore the Course → https://course.elizabethcconsulting.com/
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