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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-063 General Inflammation Testing

Inflammatory response can occur due to tissue injury and/or various disorders, including arthritis, lupus, and infection.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-055 Pancreatic Enzyme Testing for Acute Pancreatitis

Pancreatitis is an inflammation of pancreatic tissue and can be either acute or chronic. Pancreatic enzymes, including amylase, lipase, and trypsinogen, can be used to monitor the relative health of the pancreatic tissue.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-050 Hepatitis Testing

Infectious hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis viruses. Hepatitis C is a bloodborne virus that can be spread via sharing needles or other equipment to inject drugs as well as in inadequate infection control in healthcare settings.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-045 Biomarkers for Myocardial Infarction and Chronic Heart Failure

Cardiac biomarkers are the biochemical markers released in blood from injured myocardial tissue in both acute and chronic conditions, such as myocardial infarction or heart failure.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-041 Serum Tumor Markers for Malignancies

Circulating tumor biomarkers are substances detected in the blood, urine, or other body fluids that are either produced by a tumor itself or in response to its presence.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-033 Identification of Microorganisms Using Nucleic Acid Probes

Nucleic acid hybridization technologies utilize complementary properties of the DNA double-helix structures to anneal together DNA fragments from different sources.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-027 Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment

Cardiovascular risk assessment comprises the means and processes to predict the probability of developing a cardiovascular disease.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-012 Pathogen Panel Testing

Infectious diseases can be caused by a wide range of pathogens. Conventional diagnostic methods like culture, microscopy with or without stains and immunofluorescence, and immunoassay often lack sensitivity and specificity and have long turnaround times.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-003 Folate Testing

Folate, or vitamin B9, is a generic term for a water-soluble vitamin obtained from the diet that is involved in the transfer of methyl groups (i.e., single carbon-containing groups) in multiple biochemical metabolic pathways, including nucleic acid biosynthesis and methionine/homocysteine metabolism.

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Provider Alerts - Claims & Billing - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Important Prior Authorization Changes effective October 1, 2025

Healthfirst will remove prior authorization requirements for selected medical services effective October 1, 2025

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Provider Alerts - Claims & Billing - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Important Prior Authorization Changes effective December 1, 2025

Healthfirst will add prior authorization requirements for selected medical services effective December 1, 2025

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Provider Alerts - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2025
Outpatient PT and Physical Therapy Continuation Request Requirements

Healthfirst will require specific clinical documentation for all Outpatient Physical Therapy continuation requests

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