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

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Local Coverage Determination (LCD) Updates »

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