Tag: coverage guidelines
Diabetes & CGMs: ‘A rapid-fire changing environment’
March 17, 2023Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON – Industry stakeholders say Medicare’s newly expanded coverage guidelines for continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are a big win, but there’s still work to do to process that and other changes made to the benefit in the past few months.
CMS in March published an updated LCD and policy article that, among other things, expands coverage for CGMs to beneficiaries with Type 2 diabetes and allows follow-up visits to be conducted via telehealth.
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