Aetna's medical necessity criteria for external infusion pumps for diabetes have been adapted, in part, from Medicare national policy on external insulin infusion pumps, as outlined in CMS's Coverage Issues Manual Section 60-14. Documentation of continued medical necessity of the external insulin i...
PT services must be ordered by a physician or other licensed health care practitioner and performed by a duly licensed and certified, if applicable, PT provider. All services provided must be within the applicable scope of practice for the provider in their licensed jurisdiction where the services ...
In a randomized, multi-center prospective trial assessing LAR octreotide plus tamoxifen as a first line therapy for advanced breast carcinoma (n = 203), Bajetta et al (2002) concluded that there is no indication for adding somatostatin analogs to tamoxifen in the treatment of patients with advan...
All patients were managed by their usual provider. Mean (± standard deviation) decline in A1C at 12 weeks was 1.0% (± 1.1%) in the RT-CGM group and 0.5% (± 0.8%) in the SMBG group (p = .006). There were no group differences in the net change in number or dosage of ...