• Artificial Intervertebral Disc Insertion Lumbar Spine
• Benlysta (belimumab)
• Bone Mineral Density Studies
• Brineura (cerliponase alpha)
• Bronchial Valves
• Chronic Intermittent Intravenous Insulin Therapy
• Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy
• Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking
• Corneal Topography/Computer-Assisted Corneal Topography/Photokeratoscopy
• Cranial Orthoses(adjustable) for Positional Plagiocephaly
• Diabetes Self-Management Education Mandate
• Enhanced External Counterpulsation
• Exondys (eteplirsen) for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
• Expanded Molecular Panel Testing of Cancers to Identify Targeted Therapies
• Glucose Monitoring – Continuous
• Human Leukocyte Antigen Testing Mandate
• Ingestible pH and Pressure Capsule
• Laser Treatment for Onychomycosis
• Neural Therapy
• Novel Biomarkers in Risk Assessment and Management of Cardiovascular Disease
• Optical Coherence Tomography of the Anterior Segment
• Preventive Services BlueCHiP for Medicare Preventive Services
• Provider Guidelines for Requesting Point of Service Payment and Maintaining Patient Credit Card Information
• Routine Foot Care
• Surgical Deactivation of Migraine Headache Trigger Points
• Transvaginal and Transurethral Radiofrequency Tissue Remodeling for Urinary Stress Incontinence
• Varicose Vein Treatment

The following policies were recently reviewed for annual update. The full text of these policies are available in the Provider section of bcbsri.com.

For your review, we also post monthly drafts of medical policies being created or reassessed. As a reminder, you can provide comments on draft policies for up to 30 days. Draft policies are located on the Provider homepage, under the Medical Policies section, under the drop down “Draft Medical Policies."