Medicare Benefits Schedule - Note TN.8.50

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Category 3 - THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES

TN.8.50

Sacral Nerve Stimulation (items 36663-36668)

A two-stage process of testing and treatment is required to ensure suitability for Sacral Nerve Stimulation for detrusor overactivity or non obstructive urinary retention where urethral obstruction has been urodynamically excluded. The testing phase involves acute and sub-chronic testing.  The first stage includes peripheral nerve evaluation and patients who achieve greater than 50% improvement in urinary incontinence or retention episodes during testing will be eligible to receive permanent SNS treatment.


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