BCBS South Carolina Medical Policy Updates – May 2018

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May 2018  Medical Policy Updates:

• Chronic Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
• Biofeedback as a Treatment of Chronic Pain
• Diagnosis of Vaginitis including Multitarget PCR Testing
• Transtympanic Micropressure Applications as a Treatment of Meniere’s Disease
• Testosterone Replacement Therapies
• Vectra DA Blood Test for Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Trastuzumab
• Salivary Hormone Testing
• Reproductive Techniques
• Genetic Testing for Predisposition to Inherited Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Genetic Testing for Epilepsy
• Pre-implantation Genetic Testing
• Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast and/or Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (BRCA1/BRCA2)
• Intravenous Anesthetics for the Management of Chronic Neuropathic Pain
• Lynch Syndrome Testing
• Marfan Syndrome Testing
• Intracellular Micronutrient Analysis
• Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
• Lyme Disease Testing
• InflammaDry Test
• Diagnosis and Management of Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance (i.e., Clinical Ecology)
• Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Panels Using Next Generation Sequencing
• Mutation Testing for Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
• Molecular Analysis for Targeted Therapy of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
• Noninvasive Prenatal Screening for Fetal Aneuploidies Using Cell-Free Fetal DNA
• Plasma HIV-1 RNA Quantification for HIV-1 Infection
• Actigraphy
• Pelvic Floor Stimulation as a Treatment of Urinary and Fecal Incontinence
• CEP72 Mutation Testing
• Flow Cytometry
• Partial Left Ventriculectomy
• Familial Adenomatous Polyposis and MUYTH-Associated Polyposis Testing
• General Genetic Testing, Somatic Disorders
• ANA/ENA Testing

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