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