Consistent with CMS, UnitedHealthcare considers collection of a Specimen from a completely implantable venous access device and from an established catheter (CPT codes 36591 and 36592) to be bundled into services assigned a CMS NPFS Status Indicator of A, R or T provided on the same date of s...
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One hundred seventy-one technologies (61%) were evaluated for coverage status. One hundred seven technologies (38%) used coding and coverage pathways that were established prior to the FDA authorization. These technologies often represent improvements to technologies that have established clinical value ...
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14,41-44 Overdose was defined with either an opioid overdose code as the primary diagnosis (80% of identified overdose episodes) or other drug overdose or substance use disorder code as the primary diagnosis (eTable 3 in the Supplement) and opioid overdose as the nonprimary diagnosis (20% ...
In this descriptive study, we determined that among Medicare beneficiaries, there is significant state-level variation in PD prevalence, demography, dual-eligible status, and spending. States which have a higher prevalence of PD may have a larger proportion of high-risk factor patient groups, a hi...
patterns have been found to reflect the nature and complexity of health status of patient populations [32, 33], patient socioeconomic fac- tors [34–37], provider preferences with self-reinforcing regional influences [38–40], social network influence (i.e. "prescriber contagion") [41], and...
Individual measures of socioeconomic status were not available within the SEER-Medicare database. Consequently, median household income from zip code of residence was categorized into quartiles and used as a proxy for socioeconomic status and was derived from 1990 and 2000 census data, depending on...
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Post-acute care diagnoses refers to the Supplementary Classification of Factors Influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Service (also known as "V" codes) which were not disaggregated by specific factors. Medicare Home Health Providers A home health agency (HHA) is an organization that ...