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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. 
 
Erythropoiesis stimulating agent (ESA) treatment is not reasonable and necessary for beneficiaries with certain 
clinical conditions, either because of a deleterious effect of the ESA on their underlying disease or because the 
underlying disease increases their risk of adverse effects related to ESA use. These conditions include: 
 Any anemia in cancer or cancer treatment patients due to folate deficiency, B-12 deficiency, iron 
deficiency, hemolysis, bleeding, or bone marrow fibrosis; 
 The anemia associated with the treatment of acute and chronic myelogenous leukemias (CML, AML), 
or erythroid cancers; 
 The anemia of cancer not related to cancer treatment; 
 Any anemia associated only with radiotherapy; 
 Prophylactic use to prevent chemotherapy-induced anemia; 
 Prophylactic use to reduce tumor hypoxia; 
 Patients with erythropoietin-type resistance due to neutralizing antibodies; and 
 Anemia due to cancer treatment if patients have uncontrolled hypertension. 
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 110.21. 
 
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 say that suppliers must add a KX modifier to the KO base and addition codes only if all of the 
coverage criteria in the Coverage Indications, Limitations, and/or Medical Necessity section of the related 
LCD have been met and evidence of such is retained in the suppliers files and available to the DME MAC 
upon request. 
 
If all of the criteria in the Coverage Indications, Limitations, and/or Medical Necessity section of the related 
LCD have not been met, the GA or GZ modifier must be added to the code. When there is an expectation of a 
medical necessity denial, suppliers must enter the GA modifier on the claim line if they have obtained a 
properly executed Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) or the GZ modifier if they have not obtained a valid 
ABN. 
 
Claims lines billed with codes without a KX, GA or GZ modifier will be rejected as missing information. 
 
You can find this rule in the Local Coverage Article: Knee Orthoses - Policy Article (A52465). 
 
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 50% coinsurance for outpatient rehabilitation services. You can find this 
information in Chapter 4 on page 115 of the Plan's 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 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 $150 copayment for Medicare-covered outpatient hospital surgery 
services. You can find this information in Chapter 4 on pages 98 to 99 of the Plan's 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 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 on page 109 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 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 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. 
 
The rules say that the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) was developed to prevent inappropriate 
payment of services that should not be reported together. NCCI edits are organized in a Column I/Column 2 
table. Each edit is a pair of codes that should not be reported together. If a provider reports two codes of an edit 
pair, only the Column 1 code is payable. For edits with a modifier indicator of 0, the Column 2 code cannot be 
paid regardless of whether a modifier is used. You can find this in the NCCI Manual, Chapter I. 
 
The rules say that code 80050 (general health panel) is considered a non-covered code. You can find this rule 
in the Medicare Program Memorandum, Transmittal No. A-03-050, June 6, 2003. 
 
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 20% coinsurance for Medicare covered Part B drugs. You can find this 
information in Chapter 4 on page 71 of the Plan's 2022 Evidence of Coverage (EOC).  
 
The Plan also says that enrollees must pay $40 copayment for each visit to a specialist. You can find this 
information in Chapter 4 on page 83 of the Plans 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 say that certain data elements are required. Any claim with incomplete, missing, or invalid 
information for all of these elements may be returned as unprocessable. You can find this rule in the Centers 
for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Internet Only Manual, Publication 100-04, Medicare Claims Processing 
Manual, Chapter 1, Section 80.3.1. 
 
The rules say that all home health agencies (HHAs) must submit a Notice of Admission (NOA) at the 
beginning of the initial 30-day period of care. HHAs receive a single payment for a 30-day period of care after 
the final claim is submitted.  
 
For all 30-day periods of care after January 1, 2022, all HHAs must submit a Notice of Admission (NOA) to 
their Medicare contractor within 5 calendar days after the start of care date. The NOA is a one-time submission 
to establish the home health period of care and covers contiguous 30-day periods of care until the individual is 
discharged from Medicare home health services. 
 
You can find these rules in the 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 484.205. 
 
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 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) has established units of service edits 
referred to as Medically Unlikely Edits (MUEs). An MUE for a Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System 
(HCPCS)/Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code is the maximum number of units of service under most 
circumstances allowable by the same provider for the same enrollee on the same date of service. Claims 
submitted where the unit of service exceeds the MUE value for that HCPCS/CPT code will be denied.   
 
Beginning on April 1, 2013, CMS introduced the MUE Adjudication Indicator (MAI) to differentiate between 
types of MUEs. If a code has an MAI of 1, appropriate use of a modifier may be used to report the same code 
on separate lines of the claim. MUEs for codes with an MAI of 2 are absolute date of service edits. These are 
per day edits based on policy. Codes with an MAI of 2 have been rigorously reviewed and vetted within 
CMS and obtain this MAI designation because units of service on the same date of service (DOS) in excess of 
the MUE value would be considered impossible because it was contrary to statute, regulation, or subregulatory 
guidance. 
 
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(V). 
 
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. An add-on code is eligible for payment 
only if it is reported with an appropriate primary procedure performed by the same practitioner. An add-on 
code is not eligible for payment if it is the only procedure reported by a practitioner. The only exception is as 
follows:  
 
For the same date of service only one physician of the same specialty in the group practice may report code 
99291 (primary) with or without code 99292 (add-on), and the other physician(s) must report their critical care 
services with CPT code 99292. 
 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.
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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 definitive drug testing is indicated when: 
1. The results of the screen are presumptively positive. 
2. Results of the screen are negative, and this negative finding is inconsistent with the patient's medical 
history. 
3. This test may also be used, when the coverage criteria of the policy are met AND there is no presumptive 
test available, locally and/or commercially, as may be the case for certain synthetic or semi-synthetic 
opioids. 
 
A positive screen often results in an inadequate result upon which to make a proper determination. A more 
specific method, such as gas or liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, may be needed to 
obtain a confirmed analytical result. In particular, screens are frequently inadequate for interpretation of opiate 
and benzodiazepine results. Therefore, quantitative testing may be needed in these instances. Confirmation 
testing is usually not required for drugs like methadone, wherein false positive results are rare. However, 
factors such as cross-reactivity with other similar compounds or interfering substances in the specimen may 
affect test results. Confirmatory testing eliminates the risk of false positives. Also, eliminated by confirmation, 
is the risk of a pill scraper slipping through. Patients diverting their drug, attempt to cheat the test by scraping 
a bit of drug from a pill into their urine sample. It would screen positive, but there would be no metabolite upon 
confirmation. Frequent use of this code will be monitored for appropriateness. 
 
You can find these rules in the Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for Drug Testing, L34645 
 
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 $1000 deductible. This is the amount you have to pay out-of-pocket 
before we will pay our share for your covered medical services. Until you have paid the deductible amount, 
you must pay the full cost of your covered services. You can find this information in Chapter 4 on pages 4-2 to 
4-4 of the Plan's 2022 Evidence of Coverage (EOC).  
 
The Plan contract says that enrollee must pay a 20% coinsurance for all other Medicare-covered Part B drugs. 
You can find this information in Chapter 4 on pages 4-40 to 4-42 of the Plans 2022 Evidence of Coverage 
(EOC). 
 
The Plan contact says that enrollee must pay $155 copayment for Medicare-covered radiological diagnostic 
services, not including X-rays, performed in a physicians office or at a free-standing facility (such as a 
radiology center or medical clinic). You can find this information on pages 4-44 to 4-49 of the Plans 2022 
Evidence of Coverage (EOC).  
 
The Pan contract says that enrollee must a $300 copayment for Medicare-covered surgery or other services 
provided to you at an outpatient hospital, including but not limited to hospital or other facility charges and 
physician or surgical charges. You can find this information on pages 4-44 to 4-57 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 state that routine services such as physical checkups, eyeglasses, contact lenses, eye examinations for 
the purpose of prescribing, fitting, or changing eyeglasses, eye refractions, hearing aids and hearing aid 
examinations, and immunizations are not covered. The routine checkup exclusion applies to: 
a) examinations performed without relationship to treatment or diagnosis for a specific illness, symptom, 
complaint, or injury; and 
b) examinations required by third parties such as insurance companies, business establishments, or 
government agencies. 
 
You can find these rules in Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Chapter 16, Section 90. 
 
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 COVID-19 testing is covered when medically necessary and ordered by a physician. The 
contract also says prior authorization requirements may apply. You can find this information on page 62 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 has started a new initiative on April 4, 2022, that will cover up to eight over-the-
counter COVID-19 tests each calendar month, at no cost to you. Medicare will cover these tests if you have 
Part B, including those enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan. If you are in a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, 
the tests covered under this initiative will be covered outside of your existing plans coverage, and in addition 
to any over-the-counter tests that may be covered under the plan as a supplemental benefit. You can get over-
the-counter COVID-19 tests at any pharmacy or health care provider that participates in this initiative. 
Enrollees cannot submit a claim for these tests to Medicare or their MA plan (unless covered by a supplemental 
benefit) for reimbursement under this initiative. The participating provider would bill Medicare directly for 
reimbursement of the tests provided to the enrollee. You can find this information on the Centers for Medicare 
and Medicaid Services website at https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicare-covers-over-counter-
covid-19-tests. 
 
The rules state that routine services such as physical checkups, eyeglasses, contact lenses, eye examinations for 
the purpose of prescribing, fitting, or changing eyeglasses, eye refractions, hearing aids and hearing aid 
examinations, and immunizations are not covered. The routine checkup exclusion applies to: 
a) examinations performed without relationship to treatment or diagnosis for a specific illness, symptom, 
complaint, or injury; and 
b) examinations required by third parties such as insurance companies, business establishments, or 
government agencies. 
 
You can find these rules in Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Chapter 16, Section 90. 
 
The rules say that sales taxes are included in the calculation of the Medicare fee schedule. For this reason, 
Medicare does not make separate payment for sales tax. You can find this rule in the Medicare Claims 
Processing Manual, Chapter 23, Section 80.3.1. 
 
If you want to read these Medicare rules, you can go to this website www.medicareappeal.com.