Sacral Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Urinary and Fecal Incontinence

Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) is covered for urinary urge incontinence, urgency-frequency syndrome, and nonobstructive urinary retention, and for fecal incontinence when specific criteria are met. Coverage requires prior failure of conventional therapies, demonstration of surgical candidacy, a successful test stimulation with ≥50% improvement (sustained >48 hours for FI), and documentation (voiding/bowel diaries and test results); SNS is investigational for chronic constipation and chronic pelvic pain and excluded for certain anatomic or neurologic causes of incontinence.

"SNS is covered for treatment of urinary urge incontinence."

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