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Premera Blue Cross Medical Policy Updates – February 2019
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February 2019 Medical Policy Updates:
- Adoptive Immunotherapy
- Allergy Testing
- Ambulance and Medical Transport Services
- Amniotic Membrane and Amniotic Fluid Discectomy
- Ampyra® (Dalfampridine)
- Anterior Cervical Spine Decompression and Fusion in Adults
- Artificial Intervertebral Disc: Cervical Spine
- Automated Percutaneous and Percutaneous Endoscopic
- Axial Lumbosacral Interbody Fusion
- Bariatric Surgery
- Bone Mineral Density Studies
- Cardiovascular Risk Panels
- Chelation Therapy
- Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas (CTCL): Systemic Therapies
- Cytoreductive Surgery and Perioperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Select Intra-Abdominal and Pelvic Malignancies
- Drug Testing in Pain Management and Substance Abuse Treatment Settings
- Facet Joint Denervation
- General Medical Necessity Criteria for Companion Diagnostics Related to Drug Approval
- Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) Use in Adult Patients
- Hearing Aids (Excludes Implantable Devices)
- Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation for Plasma Cell Dyscrasias, Including Multiple Myeloma and POEMS Syndrome
- Home Enteral Nutrition
- Hospital Beds and Accessories
- IL-5 Inhibitors
- Immune Globulin Therapy
- Infusion Drugs and Biologic Agents
- Injectable Clostridial Collagenase for Fibroproliferative Disorders
- Intra-Articular Hyaluronan Injections for Osteoarthritis
- Lumbar Spinal Fusion
- Lumbar Spine Decompression Surgery: Discectomy, Foraminotomy, Laminotomy, Laminectomy
- Magnetic Esophageal Sphincter Augmentation to Treat Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
- Medical Necessity Criteria for Pharmacy Ed
- Medical Policy and Clinical Guidelines: Definitions and Procedures
- Microwave Tumor Ablation
- Miscellaneous Oncology Drugs
- Monoclonal Antibodies for the Treatment of Lymphoma
- Myocardial Sympathetic Innervation Imaging in Patients with Heart Failure
- Myoelectric Prosthetic Components for the Upper Limb
- Opioid Antagonists Under Heavy Sedation or General Anesthesia as a Technique of Opioid Detoxification
- Orthopedic Applications of Platelet-Rich Plasma
- Panniculectomy and Excision of Redundant Skin
- Patient Lifts, Seat Lifts and Standing Devices
- Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy for Treatment of Esophageal Achalasia
- Pharmacotherapy of Arthropathies
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation – Physical Therapy Medical Massage Therapy
- Prolotherapy
- Sublingual Immunotherapy as a Technique of Allergen-Specific Therapy
- Surgical Treatment of Snoring and Obstructive Sleep
- Technology Review
- Transesophageal Endoscopic Therapies for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
- Use of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor (VEGF) Inhibitors and Other Angiogenesis Inhibitors in Oncology Patients
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