tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 8

COVERAGE: Don't Leap Past Basic Exams to Expensive Test

Soon you'll have a new diagnostic tool for arterial problems - but don't overuse it, or you may find your practice under the carriers'l ens. In an April 15 decision memorandum, CAG-00142N, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it had decided to issue a National Coverage Determination expanding coverage for magnetic resonance angiography of the abdomen and pelvis to include imaging the renal and aortoiliac arteries. Before the decision becomes effective, CMS must issue a manual instruction, program memo, ruling or Federal Register notice with specific instructions to carriers and an effective date. CMS says you should...

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