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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 a pneumatic compression device (PCD) coded as E0675 is used in the treatment of peripheral 
arterial disease. A PCD coded as E0675 to treat PAD is not eligible for reimbursement. There is insufficient 
evidence to demonstrate that reimbursement is justified. Claims for E0675 will be denied as not reasonable and 
necessary. A PCD that provides intermittent limb compression for the purpose of prevention of venous 
thromboembolism is a preventive service. Items that are used for a preventative service or function are 
excluded from coverage under the Medicare DME benefit. You can find this rule in the Local Coverage 
Determination and Article for Pneumatic Compression Devices, L33829 and A52488. 
 
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 a Medicare plan may not pay for services given by a physician or other practitioner who has 
opted out of Medicare. This rule does not apply to emergency or urgently needed services. A Medicare plan 
must pay for emergency or urgently needed services given by a physician or practitioner who has not signed a 
private contract with the enrollee. You can find these rules at 42 CFR Sections 422.102 and 422.220 and in the 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-16, Medicare Managed 
Care Manual, Chapter 6, Section 60.2. 
 
The rules say that certain individuals and entities are not eligible to enroll in Medicare. If the contractor 
receives an enrollment application from any of these individuals or entities, the contractor shall deny the 
application. Master of Social Work is listed as one of the provider types that is not eligible to enroll in 
Medicare. You can find this information in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only 
Manual, Publication 100-08, Medicare Program Integrity Manual, Chapter 1, 10.2.8.  
 
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. 
 
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 the Pigmented Lesion Assay (PLA) is not intended to be used as a screening test in patients 
without melanocytic skin lesions. It is also not covered as an adjunctive test in lesions that are considered to 
already warrant a biopsy. The PLA is a decision tool for atypical melanocytic lesions prior to the decision to 
biopsy. You can find the rules in Local Coverage Determination (LCD) MolDX: Pigmented Lesion Assay 
L38151. 
 
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 also 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. See the OPPS Webpage at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HospitalOutpatientPPS/ for identification of STV 
packaged codes. You can find this rule in the Medicare Claims Processing Manual Chapter 4, Section 10.4, C, 
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. 
 
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 if you use an out-of-network provider, your share of the costs for your covered services 
may be higher. You can find this information on page 40 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 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 $60 copayment for in-network radiation therapy. You can find this 
information on page 68 of the Plan's 2023 Evidence of Coverage (EOC).  
 
The Plan contract also says that enrollees must pay 20% coinsurance for in-network Medicare Part B drugs. 
You can find this information on page 66 of the Plan's 2023 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 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 Decipher is covered for men with prostate cancer with localized or biochemically recurrent 
adenocarcinoma of the prostate (i.e., no clinical evidence of metastasis) who have a life expectancy of greater 
than or equal to 10 years if they are a candidate and are considering (or being considered for) at least 1 of the 
following: Conservative management and yet would be eligible for definitive therapy (radical prostatectomy 
(RP), radiation or brachytherapy),or; radiation therapy and yet would be eligible for the addition of a 
brachytherapy boost, or; radiation therapy and yet would be eligible for the addition of short-term androgen 
deprivation therapy (ADT), or; radiation therapy with short-term ADT yet would be eligible for the use of long-
term ADT, or; radiation with standard ADT yet would be eligible for systemic therapy intensification using next 
generation androgen signaling inhibitors or chemotherapy, or; observation post-prostatectomy yet would be 
eligible for the addition of post-operative adjuvant radiotherapy, or; salvage radiotherapy post-prostatectomy yet 
would be eligible for the addition of ADT. You can find the rules in Local Coverage Determination (LCD) 
MolDX: Prostate Cancer Genomic Classifier Assay for Men with Localized Disease L38339. 
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 a Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) is covered when used under the following 
conditions: 
 
Treatment of Atherosclerotic Obstructive Lesions 
 In the lower extremities, i.e., the iliac, femoral, and popliteal arteries, or in the upper extremities, i.e., the  
   innominate, subclavian, axillary, and brachial arteries. The upper extremities do not include head or neck  
   vessels. 
 Of a single coronary artery for patients for whom the likely alternative treatment is coronary bypass surgery  
   and who exhibit the following characteristics: 
     -Angina refractory to optimal medical management; 
     -Objective evidence of myocardial ischemia; and 
     -Lesions amenable to angioplasty. 
 Of the renal arteries for patients in whom there is an inadequate response to a thorough medical management  
   of symptoms and for whom surgery is the likely alternative. PTA for this group of patients is an alternative to  
   surgery, not simply an addition to medical management. 
 Of arteriovenous dialysis fistulas and grafts when performed through either a venous or arterial approach. 
 
You can find this information in the National Coverage Determination (NCD): Percutaneous Transluminal 
Angioplasty (PTA) (20.7). 
 
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 Medicare may cover a drug or biological if it is safe and effective and otherwise reasonable 
and necessary. You can find this rule in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only 
Manual, Publication 100-02, Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 15, Section 50.4.1. 
  
Medicare rules also allow the plan to use step therapy. This is the process of beginning drug therapy for a 
medical condition with "preferred" (or more cost-effective) on-formulary drug alternative(s) and progressing to 
other drug therapies only as necessary. A plan must grant an exception to its step therapy rules if it determines 
that the requested drug is medically necessary, consistent with the prescriber's statement. The statement must 
show that the step therapy drugs: have been ineffective in treating the enrollee; or are likely to be ineffective or 
adversely affect the drug's effectiveness or patient compliance; or are likely to cause an adverse reaction or 
other harm to the enrollee.  
 
Medicare Advantage plans should ensure that new step therapy requirements do not disrupt ongoing Part B 
drug therapies for enrollees. Step therapy may only be applied to new prescriptions or administrations of Part B 
drugs for enrollees that are not actively receiving the affected medication. You can find this information at 42 
CFR Sections 422.2 and 422.136. 
 
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 has step therapy requirements for certain Medicare Part B covered drugs/biologicals. 
Enrollees may be required to try a preferred drug before the Plan will approve the requested medication. You 
can find this information in Chapter 4 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 say that treatments for obesity alone remain non-covered. You can find this rule in the Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-03, Medicare National Coverage 
Determinations Manual, Chapter 1, Section 100.1. 
 
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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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 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 $65 copayment for Physician/Practitioner services when provided by an 
out-of-network specialist. The contract says that enrollees must pay 20% coinsurance for Medicare Part B 
prescription drugs. You can find this information on pages 61 to 62 and pages 73 to 74 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 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 also say modifier -25 is used to facilitate billing of evaluation and management services on the day of 
a procedure for which separate payment may be made. It is used to report a significant, separately identifiable 
evaluation and management service by same physician on the day of a procedure. The physician may need to 
indicate that on the day a procedure or service that is identified with a CPT code was performed, the patient's 
condition required a significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service above and beyond 
the usual preoperative and postoperative care associated with the procedure or service that was performed. This 
circumstance may be reported by adding the modifier "-25" to the appropriate level of evaluation and 
management service. You can find this information in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 
Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-04, Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 12, Section 40.2.8. 
 
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.
Appeal type: unknown
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 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 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. See 
the OPPS Webpage at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HospitalOutpatientPPS/for identification of STV-packaged 
codes. You can find this rule in the Medicare Claims Processing Manual Chapter 4 - Part B Hospital, Section 
10.4, C, 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.
Appeal type: unknown
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 state that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) covers percutaneous LAAC for non-
valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) through Coverage with Evidence Development (CED) with the following 
conditions: 
 
LAAC devices are covered when the device has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Premarket 
Approval (PMA) for that devices FDA-approved indication and meet all of the conditions specified below: 
The patient must have: 
 
A CHADS2 score = 2 (Congestive heart failure, Hypertension, Age > 75, Diabetes, Stroke/transient ischemia 
attack/thromboembolism) or CHA2DS2-VASc score = 3 (Congestive heart failure, Hypertension, Age = 65, 
Diabetes, Stroke/transient ischemia attack/thromboembolism, Vascular disease, Sex category) 
A formal shared decision making interaction with an independent non-interventional physician using an 
evidence-based decision tool on oral anticoagulation in patients with NVAF prior to LAAC. Additionally, the 
shared decision making interaction must be documented in the medical record. 
A suitability for short-term warfarin but deemed unable to take long-term oral anticoagulation following the 
conclusion of shared decision making, as LAAC is only covered as a second line therapy to oral anticoagulants. 
The patient (preoperatively and postoperatively) is under the care of a cohesive, multidisciplinary team (MDT) 
of medical professionals. The procedure must be furnished in a hospital with an established structural heart 
disease (SHD) and/or electrophysiology (EP) program. 
 
You can find this information in the National Coverage Determination (NCD) Percutaneous Left Atrial 
Appendage Closure (LAAC) 20.34. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com.
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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 Type of Bill is a required data element. This is a 4-digit alphanumeric code that gives two 
pieces of information. The first three digits indicate the base type of bill. The fourth digit indicates the 
sequence of this bill in this particular period of care. The types of bill accepted for home health (HH) 
prospective payment system (PPS) claims are: 
032x - Home Health Services under a Plan of Treatment 
 
Definitions of the 4th digit are: 
7 - Replacement of Prior Claim - home health agencies (HHAs) use to correct a previously submitted bill. 
8 - Void/Cancel of a Prior Claim - HHAs use this code to indicate this bill is an exact duplicate of an incorrect 
bill previously submitted. A replacement claim must be submitted for the period of care to be paid. 
9 - Final Claim for an HH PPS Period  This code indicates an HH original bill to be processed following the 
submission of an HH PPS Notice of Admission (TOB 032A). 
 
HHAs must submit HH PPS claims with the 4th digit of 9. These claims may be adjusted with code 7 or 
cancelled with code 8. A/B MACs (HHH) do not accept late charge bills, submitted with code 5, on HH 
PPS claims. 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 10, Section 40.2. 
 
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.