Effective Jan. 15, 2018, updates to Clinical Coverage Policy 3D, Hospice Services, are approved. The amended policy is posted to the North Carolina Medicaid website.
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The following new or amended combined North Carolina Medicaid and NC Health Choice clinical coverage policies are available on North Carolina Medicaid’s Clinical Coverage Policy web pages.
If a provider’s enrollment application or Manage Change Request (MCR) is clean and does not contain errors, it will process more quickly. The NCTracks Enrollment Team identified commons errors that cause delays in processing applications and MCRs.
Effective with the date of service of April 30, 2018, the North Carolina Medicaid and N.C. Health Choice programs will be terminating Clinical Policy 1B-2, Rituximab (Rituxan), within the Physician Drug Program.
Effective with the date of service of April 31, 2018, the North Carolina Medicaid and N.C. Health Choice programs will be terminating Clinical Policy 1B-1, Botulinum Toxin Treatment, within the Physician Drug Program.
Botulinum Toxin Type A (Botox) HCPCS code J0585 Botulinum Toxin Type A, per unit: Billing Guidelines
Effective with the date of service April 30, 2018, the North Carolina Medicaid and N.C. Health Choice programs will be terminating Clinical Policy 1B-1, Botulinum Toxin Treatment, within the Physician Drug Program.
Effective with date of service Nov. 8, 2017, the North Carolina Medicaid program covers zoster vaccine recombinant, adjuvanted, suspension for intramuscular injection (Shingrix) for use in the Physician’s Drug Program (PDP) when billed with CPT code 90750 - Zoster (shingles) vaccine, (HZV), recombinant, sub-unit, adjuvanted, for intramuscular injection.
Effective with date of service Nov. 15, 2017, the North Carolina Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs cover rolapitant injectable emulsion, for intravenous use (Varubi) for use in the Physician’s Drug Program when billed with HCPCS code J3490 - Unclassified drugs
Effective with date of service June 1, 2016, the North Carolina Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs cover methacholine chloride (Provocholine) administered as inhalation solution, for use in the Physician’s Drug Program when billed with HCPCS code J7674 (Methacholine chloride, neb, per 1 mg).
Effective with date of service, June 1, 2016, the North Carolina Medicaid and N.C. Health Choice programs cover NETSPOT for use in the Physician’s Drug Program when billed with HCPCS code A4641, radiopharmaceutical, diagnostic, not otherwise classified.