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CMS Update:

Check When You Can Earn For PILD

Published on Fri Mar 28, 2014

Document benefits of treatment and impact on clinical management.  A Jan. 14, 2014, decision memo from CMS announced that “percutaneous image guided lumbar decompression (PILD) for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is not reasonable and necessary under section 1862(a)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act.”  What does this announcement mean for you? This announcement implies that Medicare will only cover PILD under [...]
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