{"id":8598,"date":"2024-09-09T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=8598"},"modified":"2024-09-09T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:06:03","slug":"payment-policy-updates-september-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/payment-policy-updates-september-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Payment Policy Updates (September 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England is committed to reviewing our internal procedures and defining coverage and billing guidelines with applicable laws and industry standards to ensure our policies are appropriate. To access payment policies, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources\"><strong>healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following policies were reviewed and updated:<\/p>\n<table width=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"184\">Balloon Dilation of the Eustachian Tube<\/td>\n<td width=\"163\">Effective 9\/1\/2024<\/td>\n<td width=\"198\">\n<ul>\n<li>Updated policy- procedures described by CPT codes 69705-69706 are non-payable for MassHealth.<\/li>\n<li>No other changes to the criteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"184\">Percutaneous Neuroablation<\/td>\n<td width=\"163\">Effective 9\/1\/2024<\/td>\n<td width=\"198\">\n<ul>\n<li>Updated policy-procedures described by CPT codes 64628, 64629 (Intraosseous Basivertebral Nerve Ablation) are non-payable for MassHealth.<\/li>\n<li>No other changes to the criteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you have any questions about the information in this notice, please contact Health New England Provider Experience at (800) 842-4464, extension 5000. A representative is available Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. You may also send an email to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England is committed to reviewing our internal procedures and defining coverage and billing guidelines with applicable laws and industry standards to ensure our policies are appropriate. To access payment policies, please visit healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources. The following policies were reviewed and updated: Balloon Dilation of the Eustachian Tube Effective 9\/1\/2024 Updated policy- procedures described by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provider-newsletter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-2eG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8606,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions\/8606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}