{"id":8797,"date":"2025-11-07T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:43:40","slug":"medical-policies-updates-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/medical-policies-updates-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Policy Updates (November 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please read the following update related to various Health New England programs and changes that may have an impact on your patients and\/or your practice.<br \/>\nIf 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.<\/p>\n<table width=\"678\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"174\"><strong>Policy Updates<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"144\"><strong>\u00a0Effective Date<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"361\"><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"174\">Updated \u2013 Hospice Services<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">10\/01\/2025<\/td>\n<td width=\"361\">\n<ul>\n<li>Edited authorization language<\/li>\n<li>All lines of business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"174\">NEW \u2013 Acupuncture<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">11\/01\/2025<\/td>\n<td width=\"361\">\n<ul>\n<li>New policy<\/li>\n<li>All lines of business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"174\">NEW \u2013 Dialysis<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">11\/01\/2025<\/td>\n<td width=\"361\">\n<ul>\n<li>New policy<\/li>\n<li>All lines of business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"174\">Genetic Testing<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">01\/01\/2026<\/td>\n<td width=\"361\">\n<ul>\n<li>Updated language for GMT Lab Network<\/li>\n<li>All lines of business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"174\">Obstetrical Care<\/td>\n<td width=\"144\">01\/01\/2026<\/td>\n<td width=\"361\">\n<ul>\n<li>Added doula and lactation codes<\/li>\n<li>Commercial only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please read the following update related to various Health New England programs and changes that may have an impact on your patients and\/or your practice. 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 [&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-8797","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-2hT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","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=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8804,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}