{"id":5403,"date":"2020-06-02T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2020-06-02T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:52:03","slug":"experimental-and-investigational-codes-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/experimental-and-investigational-codes-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental and Investigational Codes &#8211; June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective 8\/1\/2020, Heath New England considers the following codes to be experimental and investigational and will be non-covered:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"286\"><strong><u>Code<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"286\"><strong><u>Description<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"286\">97607<\/td>\n<td width=\"286\">Negative pressure wound therapy, (eg, vacuum assisted drainage collection), utilizing disposable, non-durable medical equipment including provision of exudate management collection system, topical application(s), wound assessment, and instructions for ongoing care, per session; total wound(s) surface area less than or equal to 50 square centimeters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"286\">97608<\/td>\n<td width=\"286\">Total wound(s) surface area greater than 50 square centimeters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"286\">A9272<\/td>\n<td width=\"286\">Mechanical wound suction, disposable, includes dressing and all accessories and components (managed by Northwood and considered experimental and investigational).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Medical Technology Assessment Committee (MTAC) reviewed these devices and determined that they have not been proven to be superior to a conventional wound vac.<\/p>\n<p>A conventional wound vac may be authorized through Northwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective 8\/1\/2020, Heath New England considers the following codes to be experimental and investigational and will be non-covered: Code Description 97607 Negative pressure wound therapy, (eg, vacuum assisted drainage collection), utilizing disposable, non-durable medical equipment including provision of exudate management collection system, topical application(s), wound assessment, and instructions for ongoing care, per session; total wound(s) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4990,"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-5403","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\/2019\/12\/GettyImages-177308250.jpg?fit=724%2C483","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-1p9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403","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=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions\/5406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}