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| April 1, 2008 |
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Interim Modifications to Prioritized List Effective April 1, 2008 (pdf)
This notice to the Senate President dated March 4, 2008, identifies the third 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 April 1, 2008.
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, these codes for some advanced cancers are being reinstated in a new version of line 613 as indicated in Attachment G of the Interim Modifications notice. What would be line 71 on the current (line 262 on the 2006-07 list) remains deleted.
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