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Be Aware of Crucial Updates to Medicare LCD for Diagnoses

Published on Tue Oct 13, 2020

Question: We’ve always turned to our Medicare contractor’s LCDs to find a list of payable diagnoses for procedures, but now we can’t find that information. What happened? Alabama Subscriber Answer: CMS recently modernized the process for Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) based on requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act. The process has resulted in changes to LCD content, including the [...]
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