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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-025 Pediatric Preventive Screening

Preventive screening is a healthcare service with the goal of illness prevention and health management.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-026 Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Testing

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a glycoprotein that is produced by both normal and neoplastic prostate tissue.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-018 Diagnosis of Vaginitis

Vaginitis is defined as inflammation of the vagina with symptoms of discharge, itching, and discomfort often due to a disruption of the vaginal microflora.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-029 Testosterone Testing

Testosterone is a naturally occurring lipophilic androgen hormone that is produced by both males and females for various functions.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-037 Urinary Tumor Markers for Bladder Cancer

Bladder cancer is defined as a malignancy that develops from the tissues of the bladder. It is the most common cancer of the urinary system.

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Provider Alerts - Claims & Billing - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Medicare Coverage Billing Guidance for Intensive Outpatient Programs

As of Jan. 1, 2024, Medicare now covers Intensive Outpatient Services. Learn more about the program and billing requirements here.

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Provider Alerts - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2024
Availity Essentials™: Healthfirst’s New Provider Portal Launching July 2024

We are excited to announce that Healthfirst is transitioning to Availity Essentials as our new secure provider portal platform. This transition represents our commitment to continually improving our services and enhancing your overall experience with Healthfirst.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-038 Immunohistochemistry

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a very sensitive and specific staining technique that uses anatomical, biochemical, and immunological methods to identify cells, tissues, and organisms by the interaction of target antigens with highly specific monoclonal antibodies and visualization though the use of a biochemical tag or label (Fitzgibbons et al., 2014).

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-052 Helicobacter pylori Testing

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a spiral-shaped, gram-negative bacteria that thrives while living in acidic environments, growing in close association with the stomach lining.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-059 Allergen Testing

Allergic disease is characterized by inappropriate or exaggerated rated immune reactions to foreign antigens (allergens) that are generally innocuous to most people, but when introduced into a genetically-predisposed individual, elicit a hypersensitivity reaction (Hamilton, 2023).

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-067 Evaluation of Dry Eyes

Dry eye disease (dysfunctional tear syndrome, DED) is defined by the Dry Eye Workshop II as “a multifactorial disease of the ocular surface characterized by a loss of homeostasis of the tear film, and accompanied by ocular symptoms, in which tear film instability and hyperosmolarity, ocular surface inflammation and damage, and neurosensory abnormalities play etiological roles” (Craig, Nichols, et al., 2017).

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-030 Salivary Hormone Testing

Testing of saliva has been proposed as a noninvasive method to measure free (unbound to carrier proteins) steroid hormones, including estrogen, progesterone, androgens, and cortisol, for diagnosis of hormonal imbalance and administration of individualized hormone replacement therapy (ACOG & ASRM, 2012).

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