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| October 1, 2009 |
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Interim Modifications to Prioritized List Effective October 1, 2009 (pdf)
This notice to the Senate President dated September 8, 2009, identifies the seventh set of interim modifications made to the 2008-09 Prioritized List of Health Services appearing in Appendix C of the Commission's June 2007 Biennial Report. These interim modifications go into effect on October 1, 2009.
Effective October 1, 2007, the lines titled ‘Comfort Care’ and ‘Medical Conditions Where Treatment of the Condition Will Not Result in a 5% 5-Year Survival’ were deleted from the Prioritized List and replaced with a statement of intent to clarify what end-of-life care services the Commission intended for coverage. In deleting the latter line (line 674 on the 2006-07 list and what would have been line 613 on the 2008-09 list) it was discovered that some ICD-9-CM codes did not appear elsewhere on the list. Since this resulting omission was unintentional, some codes for some advanced cancers were reinstated in a new version of line 613 effective since October 1, 2008. Effective October 1, 2009, the Comfort/Palliative Care Statement of Intent has been deleted and replaced by three other statements of intent which further clarify the Commission's intention.
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