Medicare NCD Updates
April 1, 2004The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released the April 2004 update to its Medicare National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) Manual for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Services.
This update revises a number of the lab NCDs. Specifically, it adds the following as well as numerous additional changes.
- nine ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes covered for serum iron studies, per Change Request (CR) 3072
- six codes covered for prothrombin time and fecal occult blood, per CR 2940
- three codes deleted from coverage for partial thromboplastin time, per CR 2940