Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 16018

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Category 3 - THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES

16018

16018 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-May-2000
Description Updated:
01-Jul-2008
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Jul-2022

Group
T3 - Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

ADMINISTRATION OF 153 SM-LEXIDRONAM for the relief of bone pain due to skeletal metastases (as indicated by a positive bone scan) where hormonal therapy and/or chemotherapy have failed and either the disease is poorly controlled by conventional radiotherapy or conventional radiotherapy is inappropriate, due to the wide distribution of sites of bone pain.

Fee: $2,582.05 Benefit: 75% = $1,936.55 85% = $2,488.85


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