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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 effective for services performed on or after March 16, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & 
Medicaid Services (CMS) has determined 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). 
   b. The diagnostic laboratory test using NGS must have: 
i. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval or clearance as a companion in vitro diagnostic; 
and, 
ii. an FDA-approved or -cleared indication for use in that patients cancer; and, 
iii. results provided to the treating physician for management of the patient using a report template to 
specify treatment options. 
You can find this rule in the Medicare National Coverage Determination (NCD) for Next Generation 
Sequencing (NGS), Section 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 state that A/B Administrative Contractors (MACs) (B) may not pay for the technical component (TC) 
of radiology services furnished to hospital patients. Payment for physicians radiological services to the 
hospital, e.g., administrative or supervisory services, and for provider services needed to produce the radiology 
service, is made by the A/B MAC (A) to the hospital as a provider service. A/B MACs (A) include the TC of 
radiology services for hospital inpatients, except Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), in the prospective payment 
system (PPS) payment to hospitals. Hospital bundling rules exclude payment to suppliers of the TC of a 
radiology service for beneficiaries in a hospital inpatient stay. The TC of radiology and other diagnostic 
services furnished to hospital outpatients are paid under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) to 
the hospital. 
 
You can find this information in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Internet-Only 
Manual Publication 100-04, Medicare Claims Processing Manual Chapter 13, Section 20.2.1. 
 
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 physicians in the same group practice who are in the same specialty must bill and be paid as 
though they were a single physician. If more than one evaluation and management (face-toface) service is 
provided on the same day to the same patient by the same physician or more than one physician in the same 
specialty in the same group, only one evaluation and management service may be reported unless the 
evaluation and management services are for unrelated problems. Instead of billing separately, the physicians 
should select a level of service representative of the combined visits and submit the appropriate code for that 
level. Physicians in the same group practice but who are in different specialties may bill and be paid without 
regard to their membership in the same group. You can find this rule in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
Services, Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 12, Section 30.6.5. 
 
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 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 services that are not medically necessary are not covered. The rules also say that 
experimental and investigational devices are not covered. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Sections 411.15 and 
411.15(o). 
The rules say that Medicare covers these tests when they are reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis or 
treatment of the following conditions: 
 Genetic disorders (e.g., mongolism) in a fetus; (See the Medicare Benefit Policy Chapter 15, "Covered 
Medical and Other Health Services," 20.1) 
 Failure of sexual development 
 Chronic myelogenous leukemia 
 Acute leukemias lymphoid (FAB L1-L3), myeloid (FAB M0-M7), and unclassified; or 
 Mylodysplasia 
You can find this rule in National Coverage Determination (NCD) Cytogenetic Studies 190.3. 
 
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.
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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 a health plan must disclose to its enrollees in clear, accurate terms all cost sharing information 
(such as copayments, deductibles and coinsurance). You can find this rule at 42 CFR Section 422.111(a) and 
(b). 
 
The rules say that a copayment is a fixed amount charged to an enrollee on a per-service basis. The rules say 
that coinsurance is a fixed percentage of the total amount paid for a health care service that can be charged to 
an enrollee on a per-service basis. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Section 422.2.  
 
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 enrollees must pay a $675 deductible. Until you have paid the deductible amount, you must 
pay the full cost for most of your covered services. You can find this information on pages 44 to 45 of the 
Plan's 2023 Evidence of Coverage (EOC).  
 
The Plan contract says that enrollees must pay a $245 copayment for surgery services at ambulatory surgical 
center. You can find this information on pages 72 to 73 of the Plans 2023 Evidence of Coverage (EOC).  
 
The Plan contract says that enrollees must pay a $25 copayment for Medicare covered vision services at a 
specialist's office. You can find this information on pages 81 to 82 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 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 providers/suppliers shall report the HCPCS/CPT code that describes the procedure 
performed to the greatest specificity possible. A Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System/Current 
Procedural Terminology (HCPCS/CPT) code shall be reported only if all services described by the code are 
performed. A provider/supplier shall not report multiple HCPCS/CPT codes if a single HCPCS/CPT code 
exists that describes the services. This type of unbundling is incorrect coding. You can find this rule in the 
Medicare National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual, Chapter 10, Section A. 
 
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. 
 
 
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 also says that for all women: Pap tests and pelvic exams are covered once every 2 calendar years. You 
can find this information on page 55 of the Plan's 2023 Evidence of Coverage.
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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 hospital outpatient facilities shall bill for percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression 
(PILD) procedure code 0275T effective on or after January 9, 2014, or procedure code G0276 effective on or 
after January 1, 2015, for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) on a 13X or 85X type of bill (TOB). You can find this 
information in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Internet-Only Manual, Publication 100-
04, Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 32, Section 330.2. 
 
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 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 services that are not medically necessary are not covered. The rules also say that 
experimental and investigational devices are not covered. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Sections 411.15 and 
411.15(o). 
 
The rules say that genes not identified as having actionable use are not considered reasonable and necessary. 
The algorithms employed in combinatorial testing are also not currently considered reasonable and necessary 
components of multi-gene testing. You can find this rule Local Coverage Determination (LCD) MolDX: 
Pharmacogenomics Testing L38394. 
 
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 no provider or supplier shall receive payment for services furnished to a Medicare 
beneficiary unless the provider or supplier is enrolled in the Medicare program. You can find this information 
in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-08, Medicare 
Program Integrity Manual, Chapter 10, Section 10.1.2.  
 
The rules say that there are some patients who require supplementation of their daily protein and caloric intake. 
These nutritional supplements are often given as a medicine between meals to boost protein-caloric intake or 
the mainstay of a daily nutritional plan. Medicare does not pay for nutritional supplements. You can find this 
information in the Local Coverage Determination (LCD): Enteral Nutrition (L38955) and the related Local 
Coverage Article: Enteral Nutrition  Policy Article (A58833). 
 
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 providers/suppliers shall report the HCPCS/CPT code that describes the procedure 
performed to the greatest specificity possible. A Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System/Current 
Procedural Terminology (HCPCS/CPT) code shall be reported only if all services described by the code are 
performed. A provider/supplier shall not report multiple HCPCS/CPT codes if a single HCPCS/CPT code 
exists that describes the services. This type of unbundling is incorrect coding. You can find this rule in the 
Medicare National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual, Chapter 10(A). 
 
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 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 services that are not medically necessary are not covered. The rules also say that 
experimental and investigational devices are not covered. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Sections 411.15 and 
411.15(o). 
 
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). 
   b. The diagnostic laboratory test using NGS must have:  
i. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval or clearance as a companion in vitro diagnostic; 
and, 
ii. an FDA-approved or -cleared indication for use in that patients cancer; and, 
iii. results provided to the treating physician for management of the patient using a report template to 
specify treatment options. 
You can find this 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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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 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 services that are not medically necessary are not covered. The rules also say that 
experimental and investigational devices are not covered. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Sections 411.15 and 
411.15(o). 
 
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). 
   b. The diagnostic laboratory test using NGS must have:  
i. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval or clearance as a companion in vitro diagnostic; 
and, 
ii. an FDA-approved or -cleared indication for use in that patients cancer; and, 
iii. results provided to the treating physician for management of the patient using a report template to 
specify treatment options. 
You can find this 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 STV-packaged services are services for which separate payment is made only if there is no 
service with status indicator S, T, or V reported on the same claim. If a claim includes a service that is assigned 
status indicator S, T, or V reported on the same claim as the STV- packaged service, the payment for the STV-
packaged service is packaged into the payment for the service(s) with status indicator S, T, V and no separate 
payment is made for the STV-packaged service. STV-packaged services are assigned status indicator Q1. You 
can find this rule at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet-Only Publication 100-04, Medicare 
Claims Processing Manual Chapter 4, Section 10.4. 
 
The rules say that outpatient hospital codes that have a status indicator of Q3 are considered part of the 
composite Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rate and are not paid separately.  In addition, codes 
that have a status indicator of N are considered packaged services and no separate payment is made for these 
codes.  You can find this rule at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Addendum D1- Proposed OPPS 
Payment Status Indicators. 
 
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. The Plan has a Point-of-Service (POS) option to cover certain 
out-of-network services. You can find this information on page 47 of the Plan's 2022 Evidence of Coverage 
(EOC).  
 
The Plan contract also says that out-of-network virtual care services are not covered. You can find this 
information on pages 124-125 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 various Hyaluronan preparations (viscosupplementation) for intra-articular injections of the 
knee are considered reasonable and necessary when ALL of the following criteria documented in the medical 
record are met: 
1. Symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Pain that interferes with functional activities (such as, 
ambulation and prolonged standing). 
2. The diagnosis is supported by radiographic evidence of OA of the knee, for example, joint space narrowing, 
subchondral sclerosis, osteophytes, and subchondral cysts. 
3. Trial and failure or contraindication of at least 3 months of conservative therapy: 
-Non-pharmacologic therapy (e.g., physical therapy, exercise, weight management, self-management 
programs, knee brace, cane) 
-Pharmacologic therapy (e.g., acetaminophen, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (oral, 
topical), topical capsaicin) 
4. Failure of or contraindication to intra-articular glucocorticoid injections. 
You can find this rule in the Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for Hyaluronic Acid Injections for Knee 
Osteoarthritis, L39260. 
 
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.