Geisinger Health Plan Medical Policy Updates – October 2018

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October 2018 Geisinger Medical Policy Updates:

• Amniotic Membrane Transplant for Ocular Surface Defects
• Prolaris Post-Prostatectomy Test
• Occipital Nerve Stimulation
• Oncotype Dx – Multi-gene Expression Assay for Predicting Recurrence in Colon Cancer
• Occipital Nerve Block
• Quantitative Sensory Testing
• Chemosensitivity and Chemoresistance Assays
• Osteochondral Autograft Transplant
• Nutritional Supplements
• Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation PTNS
• Pharmacogenetic Testing
• Morphometric Tumor Analysis
• Magnetic Resonance MR Guided Ultrasound Ablation of Uterine Fibroids
• Dry Hydrotherapy
• Diapers and Incontinence Supplies
• Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation
• Trigger Point Injections
• TX1 Tissue Removal System for Ablating and Removing Tissue
• What’s new: Clinical policy updates
• Shift Care
• Sacroiliac Joint Injection
• Selective Internal radiation Therapy
• Fetal Surgery
• Thermography
• Thermal Capsulorraphy
• Intracavitary Balloon Brachytherapy for Breast Cancer
• Interferential Stimulation
• Facet Injections
• Suprascapular Nerve Block
• Suprachoroidal Delivery of Pharmacologic Agents
• Sympathetic Nerve Block
• Suit Therapy
• Ambulatory Cardiac Event Monitors
• Bone Mineral Density measurement
• Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation
• Cochlear Implant
• Electrocardiographic Body Surface Mapping
• Epidural Steroid Injections
• Hippotherapy

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