Medicare (CMS) February 10th 2019 Local Coverage Determination (LCD) Updates

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February 10th 2019 Medicare (CMS) LCD Updates:

• L35041             Application of Bioengineered Skin Substitutes to Lower Extremity Chronic Non-Healing Wounds
• A54117             Application of Bioengineered Skin Substitutes to Lower Extremity Chronic Non-Healing Wounds
• A55352             Billing and Coding for Rezum® Procedure
• L37851             Biomarker Testing for Neuroendocrine Tumors/Neoplasms
• L35396             Biomarkers for Oncology
• A52986             Biomarkers for Oncology
• L35062             Biomarkers Overview
• L36715             BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genetic Testing
• L34833             Cardiac Rhythm Device Evaluation
• A52953             Chemotherapy Administration
• A52991             Chemotherapy Administration
• L33735             Cold Therapy
• A52460             Cold Therapy – Policy Article
• L37371             Electroretinography (ERG)
• L33783             Enteral Nutrition
• A52493             Enteral Nutrition – Policy Article
• L33317             External Breast Prostheses
• A52478             External Breast Prostheses – Policy Article
• L33794             External Infusion Pumps
• A52507             External Infusion Pumps – Policy Article
• L37810             Genomic Sequence Analysis Panels in the Treatment of Solid Organ Neoplasms
• L35111             Hemophilia Factor Products
• L33785             High Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation Devices
• A52494             High Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation Devices – Policy Article
• L35427             Hyaluronan Acid Therapies for Osteoarthritis of the Knee
• A55036             Hyaluronan Acid Therapies for Osteoarthritis of the Knee
• L35448             Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)
• A53252             Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)
• L36678             Lab: Bladder/Urothelial Tumor Markers
• L36680             Lab: Bladder/Urothelial Tumor Markers
• L34215             Lab: Flow Cytometry
• L36094             Lab: Flow Cytometry
• L37729             Magnetic-Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor
• L37738             Magnetic-Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor
• L37832             MolDX: Breast Cancer IndexTM (BCI) Gene Expression Test
• A56317 (retired)        MolDX: Breast Cancer Index™ (BCI) Assay by Biotheranostics
• L37785             MolDX: Decipher® Biopsy Prostate Cancer Classifier Assay for Men with Very Low and Low Risk Disease
• L37857             MolDX: Envisia, Veracyte, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Diagnostic Test
• L33827             Oral Antiemetic Drugs (Replacement for Intravenous Antiemetics)
• A52480             Oral Antiemetic Drugs (Replacement for Intravenous Antiemetics) – Policy Article
• L36419             Outpatient Wireless Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring for Heart Failure
• L33797             Oxygen and Oxygen Equipment
• A52514             Oxygen and Oxygen Equipment – Policy Article
• L35101             Psychiatric Codes
• L34869             Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Adults with Treatment Resistant Major Depressive Disorder
• A56247             Response to Comments: Biomarker Testing for Neuroendocrine Tumors LCD L37851
• A56216             Response to Comments: Genomic Sequence Analysis Panels in the Treatment of Solid Organ Neoplasms- Related to Genomic Sequence Analysis Panels in the Treatment of Solid Organ Neoplasms (L37810)
• A56088 (retired)        Response to Comments: Intraoperative Radiation Therapy
• A56084 (retired)        Response to Comments: Magnetic Resonance Image Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor
• A56253             Response to Comments: Magnetic-Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor
• A56254             Response to Comments: Magnetic-Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor
• A56283             Response to Comments: MolDX: Breast Cancer IndexTM (BCI) Gene Expression Test
• A56325             Response to Comments: MolDX: Decipher® Biopsy Prostate Cancer Classifier Assay for Men with Very Low and Low Risk Disease
• A56315             Response to Comments: MolDX: Envisia, Veracyte, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Diagnostic Test
• A56267             Response to Comments: Transvenous Phrenic Nerve Stimulation in the Treatment of Central Sleep Apnea
• A53127             Self-Administered Drug Exclusion List
• L35094             Services That Are Not Reasonable and Necessary
• A54831             Single Chamber and Dual Chamber Permanent Cardiac Pacemakers – Coding and Billing
• L35070             Speech – Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
• A52469             Speech Generating Devices (SGD) – Policy Article
• A54111             Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
• L35450             Spinal Cord Stimulation (Dorsal Column Stimulation)
• A52500             Spinal Orthoses: TLSO and LSO – Policy Article
• L37929             Transvenous Phrenic Nerve Stimulation in the Treatment of Central Sleep Apnea
• L33792             Wheelchair Options/Accessories
• A52504             Wheelchair Options/Accessories – Policy Article

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