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Medicare (CMS) May 20th 2018 Local Coverage Determination (LCD) Updates

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May 20th 2018 LCD Updates:

  • A55001            2018 Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Coding and Billing Guidelines
  • A55030            2018 Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Coding and Billing Guidelines
  • L33418            Assays for Vitamins and Metabolic Function
  • L34093            Chemotherapy and Biologicals
  • L36668            Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
  • L36707            Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing
  • A53054            Going Beyond Diagnosis®: Hospice Cardiopulmonary Conditions
  • L34547            Hospice – Neurological Conditions
  • L34548            Hospice Cardiopulmonary Conditions
  • L35937            Lumbar Epidural Injections
  • DL37729          Magnetic-Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor
  • DL37738          Magnetic-Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor
  • DL37794          MolDX: Breast Cancer IndexTM (BCI) Gene Expression Test
  • DL37785          MolDX: Decipher® Biopsy Prostate Cancer Classifier Assay for Men with Very Low and Low Risk Disease
  • DL37748          MolDX: DecisionDx-Melanoma
  • DL37750          MolDX: DecisionDx-Melanoma
  • DL37744          MolDX: Oncotype DX AR-V7 Nucleus Detect for Men with Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer (MCRPC)
  • DL37746          MolDX: Oncotype DX AR-V7 Nucleus Detect for Men with Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer (MCRPC)
  • DL37740          MolDX: Pigmented Lesion Assay (PLA)
  • DL37742          MolDX: Pigmented Lesion Assay (PLA)
  • A55071            Once in a Lifetime Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Screening Article
  • L34551            One Day Stays for Chest Pain
  • A53482            Repeat or Duplicate Services on the Same Day
  • A55069            Screening Colonoscopy Converted to a Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic Colonoscopy
  • A53021            Self-Administered Drug Exclusion List – Medical Policy Article
  • A53022            Self-Administered Drug Exclusion List – Medical Policy Article

 

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