Policy Updates Medical Policy & Clinical GuidelinesCommercialDecember 1, 2020

Medical policy and clinical guideline updates - December 2020

The following Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield clinical guideline has been updated for Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.

 

The previously adopted clinical guideline contains changes as noted below.

 

*Prior authorization required 

Title

Change

Effective Date

*CG-DME-07 Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices with Digitized or Synthesized Speech Output

Clarified language and added detail related to required documentation in MN criteria

• Changed "medical" and "non-medical" to "augmentative and non-augmentative" in not medically necessary (NMN) section

3/1/2021

 

790-1220-PN-CNT