CMS Coverage of Florida’s Multi-Level Lumbar Fusions in Danger

The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services and First Coast recently sent out a policy draft with Local Coverage Determination denying Medicare coverage for multi-level lumbar fusion for symptomatic degenerative disc disease in Florida.

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Laura Dyrda


Click here to read the full Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine Review report on the draft policy for denying coverage of multi-level lumbar fusion for symptomatic degenerative disc disease.

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