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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules say that a Medicare plan may restrict members to a network of providers as long as medically 
necessary covered care is accessible and available through this network. The rules say that the Plan must 
arrange for and cover any medically necessary covered benefit of the plan provider network, but at in-network 
cost sharing, when an in-network provider or benefit is unavailable or inadequate to meet a member's medical 
needs. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Section 422.112(a)(1)(iii). 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules. The Plan 
contract says that, with limited exceptions, members of the Plan must use network providers to get medical care 
and services. The only exceptions are emergencies, urgently needed care when the network is not available 
(generally, when the enrollee is out of the area), out-of-area dialysis services, and cases in which the Plan 
authorizes the use of out-of-network providers. You can find this information on pages 31-34 of the Plan's 2023 
Evidence of Coverage (EOC).
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules state that the use of compounded drugs has been especially prevalent in the filling of implantable 
infusion pumps. When submitting a claim for compounded drug(s) for a single agent or a combination of 
agents, providers must use code J7999KD. Even though the compound is similar to or includes a drug with a 
specific code, providers must use code J7999, Compounded drug, not otherwise classified, for reimbursement 
of the compounded drug. The KD modifier must be appended to indicate the drug will be administered through 
a durable medical equipment. You can find this in the Local Coverage Article (LCA): Billing and Coding: 
Compounded Drugs Used in an Implantable Infusion Pump (A54100). 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules say that Medicare pays only for ambulance transport. Ambulance vehicles must be designed and 
equipped to meet certain requirements. The vehicle must have emergency warning lights, sirens, 
communications equipment, a stretcher, linens, emergency medical supplies, oxygen equipment and other life-
saving equipment. The vehicle also must be staffed with two people, one of whom is certified as an emergency 
medical technician. Medicare will not pay for transport by vehicles that do not meet these requirements. You 
can find this rule at 42 CFR Section 410.41(a). 
 
The rules say that plans may offer a supplemental benefit to provide transport not covered by original 
Medicare. The transport offered must be used only for the enrollee's health care needs, such as transport to the 
doctors office. The transport must be arranged or directly provided by the health plan. The transport may not 
be used for other than health-related purposes. You can find this rule in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-16, Medicare Managed Care Manual, Chapter 4, Section 30.3. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules. The contract 
says that the Plan covers routine, non-ambulance transportation as a supplemental (extra) benefit. This benefit 
covers routine transportation for up to 34 trips every year. A trip is considered one-way transportation to a plan 
approved health-related location through contracted suppliers. You can find this information on page 108 of the 
Plans 2023 Evidence of Coverage (EOC).
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules state that presumptive drug testing may be reported with CPT codes 80305-80307. These codes differ 
based on the level of complexity of the testing methodology. Only one code from this code range may be 
reported per date of service. You can find this information in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 
Medicare National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual for Medicare Services, Chapter X(E). 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules state that Medicare covers pneumatic devices when medically necessary for the treatment of 
lymphedema and/ or for the treatment of chronic venous insufficiency with venous stasis ulcers. You can find 
this in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-03, Medicare 
National Coverage Determinations Manual, Chapter 1, Section 280.6. 
 
The medical necessity determination for a PCD by the treating practitioner must include symptoms and 
objective findings, including measurements, to establish the severity of the condition. You can find this 
information in the Local Coverage Determination (LCD) Pneumatic Compression Devices L33829. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules say that screening for coronary artery disease in asymptomatic patients is not medically necessary. 
You can find this rule at Local Coverage Determination (LCD) L38396: Cardiology Non-emergent Outpatient 
Stress Testing (eff. 4/25/21). 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
 
  
  The rules state that sacroiliac joint injections (SIJI) will be considered medically reasonable and necessary 
when all the following requirements are met: 
1. Moderate to severe low back pain primarily experienced over the anatomical location of the SI 
joints between the upper level of the iliac crests and the gluteal fold, and 
2. Low back pain duration of at least three (3) months, and 
3. Low back pain below L5 without radiculopathy, and 
4. Clinical findings and/or imaging studies do not suggest any other diagnosed or obvious cause of 
the lumbosacral pain (such as central spinal stenosis with neurogenic claudication/myelopathy, 
foraminal stenosis or disc herniation with concordant radicular pain/radiculopathy, infection, 
tumor, fracture, pseudoarthrosis, or pain related to spinal instrumentation), and 
5. At least three positive findings with provocative maneuvers: FABER, Gaenslen, Thigh Thrust or 
Posterior Shear, SI Compression, SI Distraction and Yeoman Tests, and 
6. Low back pain persists despite a minimum of four weeks of conservative therapies 
You can find this information in Local Coverage Determination (LCD): Sacroiliac Joint Injections and 
Procedures (L39455). 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules state that Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture 
(VCF) is covered when the following criteria are met: 
 
1. The patient has an acute (less than 6 weeks) or subacute (6-12 weeks) osteoporotic VCF (T1  L5), based on 
symptom onset, and documented by advanced imaging. 
2. The patient is hospitalized with severe pain. 
3. The patient is non-hospitalized with moderate to severe pain despite optimal non-surgical management. 
4. The patient has stable to improved pain, but with at least 2 of the following: Progression of vertebral body 
height loss, Kyphotic deformity, or severe impact of VCF on daily functioning. 
 
All patients presenting with VCF should be referred for evaluation of bone mass density and osteoporosis 
education for subsequent treatment as indicated. All patients with VCF should be instructed to take part in an 
osteoporosis prevention/treatment program. These rules are found in Local Coverage Determination (LCD): 
Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation (PVA) for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture (VCF) 
(L33569). 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules state that testing which is intended to diagnose and characterize the neurocognitive effects of medical 
disorders that impinge directly or indirectly on the brain. Examples of problems that might lead to 
neuropsychological testing are: 
1. Detection of neurologic diseases based on quantitative assessment of neurocognitive abilities (e.g., mild 
head injury, anoxic injuries, AIDS dementia) 
2. Differential diagnosis between psychogenic and neurogenic syndromes 
3. Delineation of the neurocognitive effects of central nervous system disorders 
4. Neurocognitive monitoring of recovery or progression of central nervous system disorders; or 
5. Assessment of neurocognitive functions for the formulation of rehabilitation and/or management 
strategies among individuals with neuropsychiatric disorders. 
You can find this information in Local Coverage Determination (LCD): Psychiatry and Psychology Services 
(L33632). 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 417.414. 
 
  
  The rules say that medically necessary services are those that are reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis or 
treatment of an illness or injury. Medically necessary services include services to improve the functioning of a 
malformed body member. You can find this rule in the Social Security Act, Section 1862(a)(1)(A). 
The rules say that Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) as a diagnostic laboratory test is reasonable and 
necessary and covered nationally, when performed in a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments 
(CLIA)-certified laboratory, when ordered by a treating physician, and when all of the following requirements 
are met: 
   a. Patient has: 
i. either recurrent, relapsed, refractory, metastatic, or advanced stage III or IV cancer; and 
ii. not been previously tested with the same test using NGS for the same cancer genetic content, and 
iii. decided to seek further cancer treatment (e.g., therapeutic chemotherapy). 
You can find this information in National Coverage Determination (NCD) Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) 
90.2. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules say that plans may choose the networks of providers available to enrollees and may require enrollees 
to obtain authorization before receiving services. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Section 422.112(a) and in 
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-16, Medicare 
Managed Care Manual, Chapter 1, Section 20.2. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules. The Plan 
contract says that, with limited exceptions, members of the Plan must use network providers to get medical care 
and services. The only exceptions are emergencies, urgently needed care when the network is not available 
(generally, when the enrollee is out of the area), out-of-area dialysis services, and cases in which the Plan 
authorizes the use of out-of-network providers. While the Plan offers a Point-of-Service option for coverage of 
out-of-network services, this benefit is limited to specific services. You can find this information on page 3-4 
of the Plan's 2022 Evidence of Coverage (EOC). 
 
The Plan contract also says Medicare Part B drugs, outpatient diagnostic tests, outpatient surgery, and 
physician/practitioner services are not covered out-of-network. You can find this information on pages 4-45, 4-
49 to 4-53, 4-61, and 4-66 to 4-74 of the Plan's 2022 EOC.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules state that a test panel is a single test with multiple components and is characterized by a single unit of 
service (UOS =1). A panel cannot be unbundled and billed as individual components regardless of the fact that 
the test reports multiple individual pathogens and/or targets. If additional organisms are not included in a panel, 
testing for those organisms separately may be reasonable and necessary when ordered in addition to the panel 
and supported by documentation in the medical record. You can find this rule in the Local Coverage 
Determination (LCD) for Billing and Coding: MolDX: Molecular Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease 
Pathogen Identification Testing (A58726). 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules say that providers/suppliers must report services correctly. Procedures should be reported with the 
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code that describes the services performed. You can find this rule in 
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual 
for Medicare Services, Chapter I(A). 
 
The rules say that genetic testing in patients who do not demonstrate the disease-appropriate phenotype of the 
gene-disease association and genetic testing of asymptomatic patients are not medically reasonable and 
necessary. You can find this rule in the Local Coverage Determination for Genetic Testing for Cardiovascular 
Disease, L39084.  
 
The rules say that pharmacogenetics testing will be considered medically reasonable and necessary if the 
patient has a condition where clinical evaluation has determined the need for a medication that has a known 
gene-drug interaction(s) for which the test results would directly impact the drug management of the patients 
condition; AND the test meets evidence standards for genetic testing as evaluated by a scientific, transparent, 
peer-reviewed process and determined to demonstrate actionability in clinical decision making. You can find 
this rule in the Local Coverage Determination for Pharmacogenomics Testing, L39073. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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Decision: unknown

 
The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules say that plans may choose the networks of providers available to enrollees and may require enrollees 
to obtain authorization before receiving services. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Section 422.112(a) and in 
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-16, Medicare 
Managed Care Manual, Chapter 1, Section 20.2. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules. The Plan 
contract says that, with limited exceptions, members of the Plan must use network providers to get medical care 
and services. The only exceptions are emergencies, urgently needed care when the network is not available 
(generally, when the enrollee is out of the area), out-of-area dialysis services, and cases in which the Plan 
authorizes the use of out-of-network providers. While the Plan offers a Point-of-Service option for coverage of 
out-of-network services, this benefit is limited to certain services. You can find this information on page 43 of 
the Plan's 2022 Evidence of Coverage (EOC). 
 
The Plan contract also says that physician/practitioner services, including office visits, and skilled nursing 
facility care are not covered out-of-network. You can find this information on pages 120 and 132 of the Plan's 
2022 EOC.
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The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules state that all End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) claims with dates of service on or after July 1, 2010, 
must indicate the applicable Kt/V reading for the dialysis patient. The reading result and the date of the reading 
must be reported on the claim using the following claim codes: 
 
Value Code D5 - Result of last Kt/V reading. For in-center hemodialysis patients this is the last reading taken 
during the billing period. For peritoneal dialysis patients and home hemodialysis this may be before the current 
billing period but should be within 4 months of the claim date of service. 
 
    Hemodialysis: For in-center and home-hemodialysis patients prescribed for three or fewer treatments per 
week, the last Kt/V obtained during the month must be reported. Facilities must report single pool Kt/V using 
the preferred National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsed methods for deriving the single pool Kt/V value: 
Daugirdas II or Urea Kinetic Modeling (UKM). The reported Kt/V should not include residual renal function. 
 
A value of 8.88 shall be entered on the claim if the situation exists that a patient is prescribed and receiving 
greater than three hemodialysis treatments per week for a medically justified and documented clinical need. 
The 8.88 value is not to be used for patients who are receiving "extra" treatments for a temporary clinical need 
(e.g. fluid overload). A medical justification must be submitted for patients receiving greater than 13 treatments 
per month. 
 
    Peritoneal Dialysis:When measured the delivered weekly total Kt/V (dialytic and residual) should be 
reported. 
 
This code is effective and required on all ESRD claims with dates of service on or after July 1, 2010. In the 
event that no Kt/V reading was performed providers must report the D5 with a value of 9.99. 
 Occurrence Code 51 - Date of last Kt/V reading. For in-center hemodialysis patients, this is the date of the last 
reading taken during the billing period. For peritoneal dialysis patients and home hemodialysis patients, this 
date may be before the current billing period but should be within 4 months of the claim date of service. This 
code is effective for ESRD claims with dates of service on or after July 1, 2010. This code not required when 
reporting value code D5 with a value of 9.99 indicating no Kt/V reading is available for reporting or value 8.88 
to indicate the patient is prescribed and receiving greater than 3 hemodialysis treatments per week for a 
medically justified and documented clinical need. 
 
You can find this rule in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Medicare 
Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 8, Section 50.9. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules.
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Decision: unknown

 
The rules say that plans must pay for a medical service or item if regular Medicare would pay for it in this case. 
You can find this rule at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 422.101. 
 
The rules say that a Medicare plan may restrict members to a network of providers as long as medically 
necessary covered care is accessible and available through this network. The rules say that the Plan must 
arrange for and cover any medically necessary covered benefit of the plan provider network, but at in-network 
cost sharing, when an in-network provider or benefit is unavailable or inadequate to meet a member's medical 
needs. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Section 422.112(a)(1)(iii). 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com. 
 
The Plan contract says that the Plan covers items and services in accordance with Medicare rules. The Plan 
contract says that, with limited exceptions, members of the Plan must use network providers to get medical care 
and services. The only exceptions are emergencies, urgently needed care when the network is not available 
(generally, when the enrollee is out of the area), out-of-area dialysis services, and cases in which the Plan 
authorizes the use of out-of-network providers. You can find this information on page 34 in the Plan's 2023 
Evidence of Coverage.