BCBS Kansas City Medical Policy Updates – February 2019

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February 2019 BCBS Kansas City Medical Policy Updates:

• Acupuncture for Pain Management, Nausea and Vomiting, and Opioid Dependence
• Heart-Lung Transplant
• Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation for Plasma Cell Dyscrasias, Including Multiple Myeloma and POEMS Syndrome
• Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT): Abdomen and Pelvis
• Isolated Small Bowel Transplant
• Jivi (antihemophilic factor [recombinant] PEGylated-aucllyophilized powder)
• Magnetic Esophageal Sphincter Augmentation to Treat Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
• Neural Therapy
• Noninvasive Techniques for the Evaluation and Monitoring of Patients With Chronic Liver Disease
• Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) of the Anterior Eye Segment
• Pelvic Floor Stimulation as a Treatment of Urinary and Fecal Incontinence
• Qbrexza (glycopyrronium cloth 2.4%)
• Retinal Prosthesis
• Sacral Nerve Neuromodulation / Stimulation
• Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation for Aortic Stenosis
• Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation
• Transesophageal Endoscopic Therapies for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

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