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Where are the retired Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) located at on the WPS Website?

April 26, 2017coverage determinations lcds local located retired website WPS

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Where are the retired Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) located at on the WPS Website?

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All retired policies are available on CMS’ Website. CMS outlines the process that allows the MAC contractor to retire an LCD. Following these guidelines, if we did not think the LCD met a PIM requirement based on our experience, we retired it and sent it to CMS for final approval. CMS approved all of our recommendations to retire LCDs. We ended up with a much more manageable number of J5 LCDs. All retired policies are available on CMS’ Website. As of today, not all of these policies show an end date. We are currently working with CMS to resolve that issue. When any policy is retired, the provider should use the information in the Internet-Only Manual (IOM) located on CMS’ Website. The IOM holds all of CMS’s guidelines and should always be used in lieu of a policy.