Several of my Pain Management docs just went to a conference in Vegas, and were told that Medicare would have new coverage guidelines for cervical and lumbar RFA's in 2015....would now require patients to have 2 MBB's with at least 80% improvement in order to have RFA done. I have looked all over CMS and my MAC (Novitas) LCD's and NCD's, and have Googled this every way I can think of, and I cannot find anything that supports this information. Has anyone else heard this? One of the docs just told me (of course after I spent a good bit of time researching) that he thinks that whoever said that was referring to possible future changes, but I just thought I'd see if anyone else has come across this info.
TIA!!
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Meagan Strauss, CPC, CEMC
Coding Coordinator
The NeuroMedical Center
Baton Rouge, LA
New LCD for RFA's
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