Aetna Medical Policy Updates – June 2018

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June 2018 Medical Policy Updates:

• Alzheimer’s Disease: Experimental Tests
• Back Pain – Non Invasive Treatments
• Benralizumab (Fasenra)
• Biventricular Pacing (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)/Combination Resynchronization-Defibrillation Devices for Congestive Heart Failure
• Brachytherapy
• Buprenorphine Implant (Probuphine) and Extended-Release Injectable (Sublocade)
• Calcitriol, Etelcalcetide, and Paricalcitol Injections
• Cataract Removal Surgery
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Cold Laser and High-Power Laser Therapies
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Electroencephalographic (EEG) Video Monitoring
• Endometrial Cancer Screening and Diagnosis
• Extracorporeal Immunoadsorption (Prosorba Column)
• Gastrointestinal Function: Selected Tests
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
• Hypertrophic Scars and Keloids
• Idiopathic Scoliosis
• Infertility
• Intervertebral Disc Prostheses
• Intravascular Ultrasound
• Low-Molecular-Weight Heparins and Thrombin Inhibitors
• Lung Cancer Screening
• Mohs Micrographic Surgery
• Myoelectric Upper Limb Prostheses
• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy 
• Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
• Noncontact Normothermic/Nonthermal Wound Therapy
• Optic Nerve and Retinal Imaging Methods
• Optical Coherence Tomography and Microelastography for Solid Tumors and Other Selected Indications
• Photodynamic Therapy
• Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis: Targeted Immune Modulators
• Pulse Oximetry and Capnography for Home Use
• Quantitative Sensory Testing Methods
• Radiopharmaceuticals Metastron (Strontium-89) and Samarium-153 (Quadramet) for Metastatic Bone Pain
• Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
• Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)
• Spasticity Management
• Tinnitus Treatments
• Trigeminal Neuralgia: Treatments
• Tumor Markers
• Vitrectomy
• Wound Care
• Xolair (Omalizumab)
• YAG Laser in Ophthalmology and Other Selected Indications

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