G0068, Professional services for the administration of anti-infective, pain
HCPCS/CPT
Prior Authorization
No Prior Auth Required
Code is covered without prior authorization (high confidence)
Medicare Pricing
Work RVU
0.00
Facility
N/A
Non-Facility
N/A
Documentation Required
- None specified in this policy. (The CPB does not list required medical records, test results, or other documentation for coverage because the services are considered experimental/investigational and not covered.)
Key Coverage Criteria
- Aetna considers the use of devices to image the jawbones to diagnose NICO or NICO-type conditions experimental and investigational.
- None. The policy states that surgery, other therapies, bone graft replacement, and devices to image the jawbones (including ultrasonograph bone densitometer) for diagnosis or treatment of neuralgia inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO) or NICO-type conditions are considered experimental and investigational and therefore are not covered.
- I. Home health services are consideredmedically necessarywhenallof the followingcriteriaA through Dare met:
- The individual is confined to the home:The individual’s overall physical/medical condition poses a serious and significant impediment to receiving intermittent or occasional, skilled, medically necessary services outside the home setting. In general, the condition of these individuals should be such that there exists a normal inability to leave home and, consequently, leaving home would require a considerable and taxing effort;andIf the individual does in fact leave the home, the absences from t [...]
- The individual’s overall physical/medical condition poses a serious and significant impediment to receiving intermittent or occasional, skilled, medically necessary services outside the home setting. In general, the condition of these individuals should be such that there exists a normal inability to leave home and, consequently, leaving home would require a considerable and taxing effort;and
- If the individual does in fact leave the home, the absences from the home are infrequent or for periods of relatively short duration, or are attributable to the need to receive health care treatment. The following are examples of acceptable medical and non-medical absences (these examples are not all-inclusive and are provided as a means to illustrate the kinds of infrequent or unique events an individual may attend):Medical absences to receive health care treatment, including but not limited to [...]
2 Active Policies
ANTHEM-CG-MED-23, CG-MED-23 Home Health
AETNA-CPB-0642, Neuralgia Inducing Cavitational Osteonecrosis (NICO) and Ultrasonograph Bone Densitometer to Detect NICO
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