In order to ensure that your office is correctly billing modifiers, we encourage you to review the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Corporate Medical Policy addressing Modifier Guidelines, which was last revised in December 2013 and available online at: http://www.bcbsnc.com/assets/services/public/pdfs/medicalpolicy/modifier_ ...
Faden quartz is a descriptive term for a usually tabular group of quartz crystals with a white thread-like or string-like zone running through the interior. The term faden is a German word for thread. They are found in the Alpine region of Europe, Pakistan, Russia and Arkansas.
Faden procedure A surgical procedure designed to weaken the action of an extraocular muscle by reattaching it to the globe posterior to its original insertion. By attaching the muscle to the eye at this point, the arc of contact of the muscle is changed, thus weakening the muscle in its field of action.