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24-Hour Ambulatory Esophageal pH Monitoring

Abortion

Acupuncture

Acupuncture for Fibromyalgia

Acupuncture for Osteoarthritis

Adult Liver Transplantation

Air-Fluidized Bed

Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

Ambulatory EEG Monitoring

Anesthesia in Cardiac Pacemaker Surgery

Anti-Inhibitor Coagulant Complex (AICC)

Antigens Prepared for Sublingual Administration

Apheresis (Therapeutic Pheresis)

Arthroscopic Lavage and Arthroscopic Debridement for the Osteoarthritic Knee

Artificial Hearts and Related Devices

Assessing Patient's Suitability for Electrical Nerve Stimulation Therapy

Autogenous Epidural Blood Graft

Biofeedback Therapy

Biofeedback Therapy for the Treatment of Urinary Incontinence

Bladder Stimulators (Pacemakers)

Blood Counts

Blood Glucose Testing

Blood Platelet Transfusions

Blood Transfusions

Blood-Derived Products for Chronic Non-Healing Wounds

Bone (Mineral) Density Studies

Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy

Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA)

Cardiac Catheterization Performed in Other than a Hospital Setting

Cardiac Output Monitoring by Thoracic Electrical Bioimpedance (TEB)

Cardiac Pacemaker Evaluation Services

Cardiac Pacemakers

Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs

Cardiointegram (CIG) as an Alternative to Stress Test or Thallium Stress Test

Carotid Body Resection/Carotid Body Denervation

Carotid Sinus Nerve Stimulator

Cellular Therapy

Certain Drugs Distributed by the National Cancer Institute

Challenge Ingestion Food Testing

Chelation Therapy for Treatment of Atherosclerosis

Chemical AversionTherapy for Treatment of Alcoholism

Closed-Loop Blood Glucose Control Device (CBGCD)

Cochlear Implantation

Cochleostomy with Neurovascular Transplant for Meniere's Disease

Collagen Crosslinks, any Method

Colonic Irrigation

Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests

Computer Enhanced Perimetry

Computerized Tomography

Consultation Services Rendered by a Podiatrist in a Skilled Nursing Facility

Consultations with a Beneficiary's Family and Associates

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)

Corset Used as Hernia Support

Cryosurgery of Prostate

Cytogenetic Studies

Cytotoxic Food Tests

Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease

Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Dental Examination Prior to Kidney Transplantation

Diabetes Outpatient Self-Management Training

Diagnosis and Treatment of Impotence

Diagnostic Breath Analyses

Diagnostic Endocardial Electrical Stimulation (Pacing)

Diagnostic Pap Smears

Diathermy Treatment

Digital Subtraction Angiography

Digoxin Therapeutic Drug Assay

Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO)

Displacement Cardiography

Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Reference List

Electrical Aversion Therapy for Treatment of Alcoholism

Electrical Continence Aid

Electrical Nerve Stimulators

Electrical Stimulation (ES) and Electromagnetic Therapy for the Treatment of Wounds

Electrocardiographic Services

Electroencephalographic (EEG) Monitoring During Surgical Procedures Involving the Cerebral Vasculature

Electron Microscope

Electronecephalographic (EEG) Monitoring During Open-Heart Surgery

Electronic Speech Aids

Electrosleep Therapy

Electrotherapy for Treatment of Facial Nerve Paralysis (Bell's Palsy)

Endoscopy

Endothelial Cell Photography

Enteral and Parenteral Nutritional Therapy

Esophageal Manometry

Ethylenediamine-Tetra-Acetic (EDTA) Chelation Therapy for Treatment of Atherosclerosis

Evoked Response Tests

External Counterpulsation (ECP) for Severe Angina

Extracorporeal Immunoadsorption (ECI) Using Protein A Columns

Extracorporeal Photopheresis

Extracranial-Intracranial (EC-IC) Arterial Bypass Surgery

Fabric Wrapping of Abdominal Aneurysms

Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT)

Fluidized Therapy Dry Heat for Certain Musculoskeletal Disorders

Food Allergy Testing and Treatment

Gamma Glutamyl Transferase (GGT)

Gastric Balloon for Treatment of Obesity

Gastric Bypass Surgery for Obesity

Gastric Freezing

Gastrophotography

Glycated Hemoglobin/Glycated Protein

Granulocyte Transfusions

Gravlee Jet Washer

Hair Analysis

Heart Transplants

Heat Treatment, including the Use of Diathermy and Ultrasound for Pulmonary Conditions

Hemodialysis for Treatment of Schizophrenia

Hemorheograph

Hepatitis Panel/Acute Hepatitis Panel

HIS Bundle Study

Histocompatibility Testing

Home Blood Glucose Monitors

Home Health Nurses' Visits to Patients Requiring Heparin Injection

Home Health Visits to a Blind Diabetic

Home Prothrombin Time INR Monitoring for Anticoagulation Management

Home Use of Oxygen

Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility Admission Diagnostic Procedures

Hospital Beds

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Testing (Diagnosis)

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Testing (Prognosis Including Monitoring)

Human Tumor Stem Cell Drug Sensitivity Assays

Hydrophilic Contact Lens For Corneal Bandage

Hydrophilic Contact Lenses

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Hyperthermia for Treatment of Cancer

Implantable Automatic Defibrillators

Implantation of Anti-Gastroesophageal Reflux Device

Incontinence Control Devices

Induced Lesions of Nerve Tracts

Infusion Pumps

Injection Sclerotherapy for Esophageal Variceal Bleeding

Inpatient Hospital Pain Rehabilitation Programs

Inpatient Hospital Stays for Treatment of Alcoholism

Institutional and Home Care Patient Education Programs

Insulin Syringe

Intestinal and Multi-Visceral Transplantation

Intestinal Bypass Surgery

Intraocular Lenses (IOLs)

Intraocular Photography

Intraoperative Ventricular Mapping

Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilator (IPV)

Intravenous Histamine Therapy

Intravenous Immune Globulin for the Treatment of Autoimmune Mucocutaneous Blistering Diseases

Intravenous Iron Therapy

Invasive Intracranial Pressure Monitoring

Islet Cell Transplantation in the Context of a Clinical Trial

L-Dopa

Laboratory Tests - CRD Patients

Laetrile and Related Substances

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Laser Procedures

Levocarnitine for use in the Treatment of Carnitine Deficiency in ESRD Patients

Lipid Testing

Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (Reduction Pneumoplasty)

Lymphocyte Immune Globulin, Anti-Thymocyte Globulin (Equine)

Lymphocyte Mitogen Response Assays

Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA)

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS)

Mammograms

Manipulation

Medical Nutrition Therapy

Melodic Intonation Therapy

Multiple Electroconvulsive Therapy (MECT)

Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulaton (NMES)

Non-Implantable Pelvic Floor Electrical Stimulator

Noncontact Normothermic Wound Therapy (NNWT)

Noninvasive Tests of Carotid Function

Nonselective (Random) Transfusions and Living Related Donor Specific Transfusions (DST) in Kidney Transplantation

Nuclear Radiology Procedure

Obsolete or Unreliable Diagnostic Tests

Ocular Photodynamic Therapy (OPT)

Osteogenic Stimulation

Outpatient Hospital Pain Rehabilitation Programs

Outpatient Hospital Services for Treatment of Alcoholism

Oxygen Treatment of Inner Ear/Carbon Therapy

Pancreas Transplants

Partial ThromboplastinTime (PTT)

Partial Ventriculectomy

Pediatric Liver Transplantation

Percutaneous Image-Guided Breast Biopsy

Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA)

Peridex CAPD Filter Set

Phaco-Emulsification Procedure - Cataract Extraction

Phrenic Nerve Stimulator

Physician's Office Within an Institution--Coverage of Services and Supplies Incident to a Physician's Services

Plastic Surgery to Correct Moon Face

Plethysmography

Pneumatic Compression Devices

Porcine Skin and Gradient Pressure Dressings

Portable Hand-Held X-Ray Instrument

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scans

Postural Drainage Procedures and Pulmonary Exercises

Power-Operated Vehicles That May Be Used as Wheelchairs

Prolotherapy, Joint Sclerotherapy, and Ligamentous Injections with Sclerosing Agents

Pronouncement of Death

Prostate Cancer Screening Tests

Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)

Prostetic Shoe

Prothrombin Time (PT)

Refractive Keratoplasty

Routine Costs in Clinical Trials

Sacral Nerve Stimulation For Urinary Incontinence

Safety Roller

Scalp Hypothermia During Chemotherapy to Prevent Hair Loss

Scleral Shell

Screening Pap Smears and Pelvic Examinations for Early Detection of Cervical or Vaginal Cancer

Seat Lift

Self-Contained Pacemaker Monitors

Sensory Nerve Conduction Threshold Tests (sNCTs)

Serologic Testing for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Serum Iron Studies

Services Provided for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetic Sensory Neuropathy with Loss of Protective Sensation (aka Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy)

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)

Specially Sized Wheelchairs

Speech Generating Devices

Speech Pathology Services for the Treatment of Dysphagia

Stem Cell Transplantation

Stereotactic Cingulotomy as a Means of Psychosurgery

Stereotaxic Depth Electrode Implantation

Sterilization

Supplies Used in the Delivery of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES)

Sweat Test

Sykes Hernia Control

Telephone Transmission of Electroencephalograms (EEGs)

Therapeutic Embolization

Thermogenic Therapy

Thermography

Thoracic Duct Drainage (TDD) in Renal Transplants

Thyroid Testing

Tinnitus Masking

Tracheostomy Speaking Valve

Transcendental Meditation (TM)

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) for Acute Post-Operative Pain

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulators (TENS)

Transfer Factor for Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis

Transillumination Light Scanning or Diaphanography

Transmyocardial Revascularization (TMR)

Transsexual Surgery

Transvenous (Catheter) Pulmonary Embolectomy

Treatment of Actinic Keratosis (AKs)

Treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in a Freestanding Clinic

Treatment of Decubitus Ulcers

Treatment of Drug Abuse (Chemical Dependency)

Treatment of Kidney Stones

Treatment of Motor Function Disorders with Electric Nerve Stimulation

Treatment of Obesity

Treatment of Psoriasis

Tumor Antigen by Immunoassay - CA 125

Tumor Antigen by Immunoassay - CA 15-3/CA 27.29

Tumor Antigen by Immunoassay - CA 19-9

Ultrafiltration Monitor

Ultrafiltration, Hemoperfusion and Hemofiltration

Ultrasonic Surgery

Ultrasound Diagnostic Procedures

Urinary Drainage Bags

Urine Culture, Bacterial

Uroflowmetric Evaluations

Use of Visual Tests Prior to and General Anesthesia during Cataract Surgery

Vabra Aspirator

Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treatment of Seizures

Vertebral Artery Surgery

Vertebral Axial Decompression (VAX-D)

Verteporfin

Vitamin B12 Injections to Strengthen Tendons, Ligaments, etc., of the Foot

Vitrectomy

Water Purification and Softening Systems Used in Conjunction with Home Dialysis

White Cane for Use by a Blind Person

Withdrawal Treatments for Narcotic Addictions

Xenon Scan