{"id":4865,"date":"2019-09-27T15:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:43:03","slug":"october-2019-clinical-review-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/october-2019-clinical-review-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2019 Clinical Review Criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England\u2019s Clinicial Policies have been updated and can be found on the Provider Resources page at <a href=\"http:\/\/healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources<\/a>. On the Resources page, click on \u201cBehavioral Health\/Medical Policies\u201d to learn of the changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed with changes effective 12\/1\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surgical Management of Morbid Obesity<\/li>\n<li>Abdominal Panniculectomy<\/li>\n<li>Contact Lenses<\/li>\n<li>Cochlear Implants and BAHA (Bone Anchored Hearing Aid)<\/li>\n<li>Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure<\/li>\n<li>Treatment of Lipodystrophy Syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Tumor Treatment Fields (previously Optune Device-Tumor Treatment Fields-TTF)<\/li>\n<li>Endothelial Keratoplasty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nNew policies effective 1\/1\/2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intacs Corneal Implants (Intrastromal Corneal Ring Segments)<\/li>\n<li>Hydrogen Breath Testing<\/li>\n<li>Upper Airway Stimulation Device (UAS)\/Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation (HGNS) (Inspire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England\u2019s Clinicial Policies have been updated and can be found on the Provider Resources page at healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources. On the Resources page, click on \u201cBehavioral Health\/Medical Policies\u201d to learn of the changes. Reviewed with changes effective 12\/1\/2019 Surgical Management of Morbid Obesity Abdominal Panniculectomy Contact Lenses Cochlear Implants and BAHA (Bone Anchored Hearing Aid) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provider-newsletter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/doctor-computer-e1493387481975.jpg?fit=800%2C493","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-1gt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}