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NCD150.5

 

DIATHERMY TREATMENT

 

 

Effective Date of this Version

• 6/19/2006

 

Benefit Category

• Incident to a physician's professional Service.

• Physicians' Services.

• Note: This may not be an exhaustive list of all applicable Medicare benefit categories for this item or service.

 

Indications and Limitations of Coverage

CIM 35-41

• High energy pulsed wave diathermy machines have been found to produce some degree of therapeutic benefit for essentially the same conditions and to the same extent as standard diathermy.

• Accordingly, where the contractor’s medical staff has determined that the pulsed wave diathermy apparatus used is one which is considered therapeutically effective, the treatments are considered a covered service, but only for those conditions for which standard diathermy is medically indicated and only when rendered by a physician or incident to a physician’s professional services.

 

Cross Reference

§240.3

 

Coverage Transmittal Link

http://www.cms.gov/transmittals/downloads/R48NCD.pdf

 

 

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