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Blue Shield California Medical Policy Updates – May 2021
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May 2021 Blue Shield California Medical Policy Updates:
- Ambulatory Surgery Center
- Amniotic Membrane and Amniotic Fluid
- Auditory Brainstem Implant
- Balloon Dilation of the Eustachian Tube
- Balloon Ostial Dilation for Treatment of Chronic and Recurrent Acute Rhinosinusitis
- Bariatric Surgery
- Blepharoplasty, Blepharoptosis Repair (Levator Resection) and Brow Lift (Repair of Brow Ptosis)
- Breast Implant Management
- Chelation Therapy for Off-Label Uses
- Chronic Intermittent Intravenous Insulin Therapy
- Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation and Auricular Electrostimulation
- Dynamic Posturography
- Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
- Gastric Electrical Stimulation
- Gender Reassignment Surgery
- General Approach to Evaluating the Utility of Genetic Panels
- General Approach to Genetic Testing
- Genetic Testing for BRCA1 or BRCA2 for Heredity Breast/Ovarian Cancer Syndrome and Other High-Risk Cancers
- Handheld Radiofrequency Spectroscopy for Intraoperative Assessment of Surgical Margins During Breast-Conserving Surgery
- Implantable Bone-Conduction and Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids
- Intraoperative Radiotherapy
- Noninvasive Prenatal Screening for Fetal Aneuploidies and Microdeletions Using Cell-Free Fetal DNA
- Reduction Mammaplasty for Breast-Related Symptoms
- Semi-Implantable and Fully Implantable Middle Ear Hearing Aids
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy
- Steroid-Eluting Sinus Stents and Implants
- Surgical Deactivation of Headache Trigger Sites
- Surgical Treatment of Gynecomastia
- Surgical Ventricular Restoration
- Temporomandibular Joint Disorder
- Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation for Aortic Stenosis
- Vagus Nerve Blocking Therapy for Treatment of Obesity
Added 5/25/2021;
- Charged-Particle (Proton or Helium Ion) Radiotherapy for Neoplastic Conditions
- Cleft Palate – Dental Related Services
- Continuous Passive Motion in the Home Setting
- Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking
- Dental Anesthesia
- Electrical and Electromagnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Arthritis
- Endothelial Keratoplasty
- Eyelid Thermal Pulsation for the Treatment of Dry Eye Syndrome
- Functional Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
- Gene Expression-Based Assays for Cancers of Unknown Primary
- Genetic and Protein Biomarkers for the Diagnosis and Cancer Risk Assessment of Prostate Cancer
- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Panels Using Next-Generation Sequencing
- Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease
- Genetic Testing for Familial Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma
- Genetic Testing for Macular Degeneration
- Genetic Testing for Predisposition to Inherited Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Germline Genetic Testing for Pancreatic Cancer Susceptibility Genes
- Hippotherapy
- Hysterectomy Surgery for Benign Conditions
- Implantation of Intrastromal Corneal Ring Segments
- Interim Positron Emission Tomography Scanning in Oncology to Detect Early Response During Treatment
- Knee Braces
- Laboratory and Genetic Testing for Use of 5-Fluorouracil in Patients With Cancer
- Lifestyle Modification Program for Reversing Heart Disease
- Microprocessor-Controlled Prostheses for the Lower Limb
- Myocardial Strain Imaging
- Myoelectric Prosthetic and Orthotic Components for the Upper Limb
- Novel Biomarkers in Risk Assessment and Management of Cardiovascular Disease
- Oncologic Applications of Positron Emission Tomography Scanning
- Ophthalmologic Techniques That Evaluate the Posterior Segment for Glaucoma
- Optical Coherence Tomography of the Anterior Eye Segment
- Orthoptic Training for the Treatment of Vision or Learning Disabilities
- Panniculectomy, Abdominoplasty, and Surgical Management of Diastasis Recti
- Partial Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears and Acromioplasty/Subacromial Decompression
- Patient-Controlled End Range of Motion Stretching Devices
- Pelvic Floor Stimulation as a Treatment of Urinary and Fecal Incontinence
- Personalized Breast Cancer Screening Clinical Trial
- Physical Therapy
- Pneumatic Compression Pumps for Treatment of Lymphedema and Venous Ulcers
- Power Morcellation for the Treatment of Uterine Fibroids
- Powered Exoskeleton for Ambulation in Patients With Lower-Limb Disabilities
- Reconstructive Services
- Retinal Prosthesis
- Sensory Integration Therapy and Auditory Integration Therapy
- Steroid-Eluting Sinus Stents and Implants
- Temporomandibular Joint Disorder
- Total Hip Arthroplasty for Adults
- Whole Exome and Whole Genome Sequencing for Diagnosis of Genetic Disorders
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