Persius/hicric huggingface dataset:
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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 when a patient receives observation care for a minimum of 8 hours, but less than 24 hours, 
and is discharged on the same calendar date, Observation or Inpatient Care Services (Including Admission and 
Discharge Services) from CPT code range 99234  99236 shall be reported. The observation discharge, CPT 
code 99217, cannot also be reported for this scenario. You can find this rule in the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-04, Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 
12, Section 30.6.8(B).  
 
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
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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 presumptive urine drug testing (UDT) is limited to primarily screens for drug classes rather 
than specific drugs, and therefore, the practitioner may not be able to determine if a different drug within the 
same class is causing the positive result. Definitive UDT is reasonable and necessary in order to identify a 
specific substance or metabolite that is inadequately detected by a presumptive UDT, and definitively identify 
specific drugs in a large family of drugs. You can find this rule in the Local Coverage Determination for 
Controlled Substance Monitoring and Drugs of Abuse Testing, L35006. 
 
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 coverage of seat lifts is limited to those types which operate smoothly, can be controlled by 
the patient, and effectively assist a patient in standing up and sitting down without other assistance. Excluded 
from coverage is the type of lift which operates by a spring release mechanism with a sudden, catapult-like 
motion and jolts the patient from a seated to a standing position. Limit the payment for units which incorporate 
a recliner feature along with the seat lift to the amount payable for a seat lift without this feature. You can find 
this rule in National Coverage Determination (NCD) Seat Lift 280.4. 
 
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 the provider, supplier, or beneficiary, as appropriate, must furnish to the intermediary or 
carrier sufficient information to determine whether payment is due and the amount of payment. You can find 
this rule at 42 CFR 424.5. 
 
The rules say for Medicare to consider coverage and payment for any item or service, the information 
submitted by the supplier or provider must corroborate the documentation in the beneficiary's medical 
documentation and confirm that Medicare coverage criteria have been met. You can see this in the Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-08, Medicare Program Integrity 
Manual Chapter 3, 3.3.2.1. 
 
The rules also 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-to-face) 
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 in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, Internet-Only Manual, Publication 100-04, 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.
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. 
 
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 the Plan covers an Annual Routine Preventive Physical Exam. Non-Medicare covered 
routine physical exams are covered once every calendar year. You can find this information on page 63 of the 
Plan's 2022 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 Medicare will not pay for dental services. Dental services are items and services involving 
the care, treatment, filling, removal or replacement of teeth or structures directly supporting the teeth. Medicare 
defines "structures directly supporting the teeth" as the periodontium, which includes the gingivae, 
dentogingival junction, periodontal membrane, cementum of the teeth, and alveolar process. You can find this 
rule in the Social Security Act, Section 1862(a)(12) and in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 
Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-02, Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 15, Section 150. 
 
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 certain dental services as a supplemental (extra) benefit. This benefit does not include 
coverage for the dental service code D4910. You can find this information in Chapter 4 on page 67 of the 
Plans 2022 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 a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan includes, at a minimum, basic benefits and may also 
include mandatory supplemental benefits and optional supplemental benefits as described in 42 Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) 422.102.  Basic benefits are all Medicare-covered services, except hospice services. 
Mandatory supplemental benefits are MA non-drug plan benefits, not covered by original Medicare, but are 
covered by the MA plan, for every person that has enrolled in the MA plan. Mandatory supplemental benefits 
are paid for either in full, directly by, or on behalf of, MA enrollees by premiums and cost sharing, or through 
application of rebate dollars. An MA Medical Savings Account (MSA) plan may not provide mandatory 
supplemental benefits. Optional supplemental benefits are similar to mandatory supplemental benefits in that 
they are non-drug benefits that are not covered by original Medicare. However, plan enrollees may choose 
whether to elect and pay for optional supplemental benefits. MA organizations may offer individual items or 
groups of items and services as optional supplemental benefits. Rebate dollars may not be applied toward 
optional supplemental benefits. 
 
MA Plans have a great deal of flexibility in the benefits they may offer. However, all benefits that are part of 
the MA plan must satisfy the following guidelines: 
All benefits must be directly health-related, that is, health care services or items whose primary purpose is to 
prevent, cure or diminish, actual or future, illness or injury for which the MA plan incurs a bid-priced cost that 
is not solely administrative. For a complete definition of benefit see section 10.10 of this chapter; 
All benefits must be offered uniformly to all enrollees; 
All benefits must be priced in the bid ; and 
All benefits must be specified in the appropriate marketing vehicles as indicated in the Medicare Marketing 
Guidelines located at url 
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PrescriptionDrugCovContra/Downloads/FinalMarketingGuidelines.pdf 
 
You can find this information in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)  Manual System, Pub. 
100-16 Medicare Managed Care, Transmittal 87. 
 
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 after a discharge from an acute inpatient hospital stay or skilled nursing facility, you may be 
eligible to receive 14 nutritious frozen meals delivered to your home. You are eligible to receive this benefit up 
to three (3) times per year. You can find this information on page 72 of the Plan's 2022 Evidence of Coverage, 
and on page 63 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 Medicare will pay for durable medical equipment (DME) that is reasonable and necessary for 
treatment of an illness or injury, or to improve the functioning of a malformed body part. Medicare considers 
equipment to be reasonable and necessary if the equipment does not serve the same purpose as other equipment 
already available to an enrollee. You can find these rules in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 
Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-02, Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 15, Section 110.1(C). 
The rules say that a new 36-month rental period does not start in the following situations: 
 Replacing equipment due to malfunction, wear and tear, routine maintenance, repair 
 Providing different equipment based on a treating practitioner order or beneficiary request for an 
upgrade 
 Break-in-need less than 60 days plus the days remaining in the month of discontinuation (see BREAK-
IN-SERVICE below) 
 Break-in-billing (see BREAK-IN-SERVICE below) 
 Changing suppliers 
You can find this rule in Local Coverage Article Oxygen and Oxygen Equipment - Policy Article A52514. 
 
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 Medicare allows payment for one annual wellness visit (AWV) for enrollees who have not 
had an AWV within the past 12 months. You can find this information in the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-04, Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 
18, Section 140. 
 
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 have had Part B for longer than 12 months, you can get an annual wellness visit to 
develop or update a personalized prevention plan based on your current health and risk factors. You do not 
have to wait a full year to get your annual wellness visit, you can get it once every calendar year. You can find 
this information on pages 4-11 to 4-12 of the Plan's 2021 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 CT scans are covered if there is literature to support its use for the patients condition and the 
scan is reasonable and necessary for the patient. You can find this rule in the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-03, Medicare National Coverage Determinations 
Manual, Section 220.1(A). 
 
The rules say that Medicare plans must make reasonable and diligent efforts to gather and forward information 
to the Independent Review Entity (IRE). You can find this information in the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Parts C & D Enrollee Grievances, Organization/Coverage 
Determinations, and Appeals Guidance Manual, Section 50.12.1. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com.
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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 specialty care outside of the Plan provider network when network providers are unavailable or 
inadequate to meet a member's medical needs. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Section 422.112(a)(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 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 52-58 of the Plan's 2022 
Evidence of Coverage (EOC).
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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 spinal orthosis (L0450, L0452, L0454, L0455, L0456, L0457, L0458, L0460, L0462, 
L0464, L0466, L0467, L0468, L0469, L0470, L0472, L0480, L0482, L0484, L0486, L0488, L0490, L0491, 
L0492, L0621, L0622, L0623, L0624, L0625, L0626, L0627, L0628, L0629, L0630, L0631, L0632, L0633, 
L0634, L0635, L0636, L0637, L0638, L0639, L0640, L0641, L0642, L0643, L0648, L0649, L0650, L0651) is 
covered when it is ordered for one of the following indications: 
1. To reduce pain by restricting mobility of the trunk; or 
 
2. To facilitate healing following an injury to the spine or related soft tissues; or 
 
3. To facilitate healing following a surgical procedure on the spine or related soft tissue; or 
 
4. To otherwise support weak spinal muscles and/or a deformed spine. 
If a spinal orthosis is provided and the coverage criteria are not met, the item will be denied as not medically 
necessary. You can find this rule at Local Coverage Determination (LCD) L33790: Spinal Orthoses: TLSO and 
LSO (eff. 1/1/20). 
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 Medicare plans must make reasonable and diligent efforts to gather and forward information 
to the Independent Review Entity (IRE). You can find this information in the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Parts C & D Enrollee Grievances, Organization/Coverage 
Determinations, and Appeals Guidance Manual, Section 50.12.1. 
 
The rules say that the Correct Coding Initiative was developed to promote correct coding and to control 
improper coding leading to inappropriate payment in Part B claims. The Coding Policy Manual also explains 
what is referred to as Column One/Column Two Correct Coding and Mutually Exclusive Edits. These are code 
pairs that should not be reported together. Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) subject all line items 
for the same beneficiary, same National Provider Identifier (NPI), and same date of service to National Correct 
Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits. The National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) File Formats continue to 
include a Correct Coding Modifier Indicator (CCMI) for the Column One / Column Two Correct Coding edit 
file. This indicator determines whether an NCCI Procedure to Procedure (PTP)-associated modifier causes the 
code pair to bypass the edit. You can find this rule in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet 
Only Manual, Publication 100-04, Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 23, Section 20.9. 
 
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.
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 Medicare only covers one IPPE per beneficiary in their lifetime. Beneficiaries are eligible 
for this service for 1 year after their Medicare Part B coverage effective date. No payment is made for IPPEs 
that do not meet these criteria.  You can find this rule at 42 CFR 410.46. 
 
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 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 specialty care outside of the Plan provider network when network providers are unavailable or 
inadequate to meet a member's medical needs. You can find this rule at 42 CFR Section 422.112(a)(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 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 page 28 of the Plan's 2023 
Evidence of Coverage (EOC).
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 effective for services performed on or after August 7, 2019, the use of non-FDA-approved 
autologous T-cells expressing at least one CAR is non-covered. You can find this rule in the National Coverage 
Determination (NCD) - Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapy (110.24) - Effective August 7, 2019. 
 
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.