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1E-7 Family Planning Services

Service Code
88153 (CPT) Cytopathology, slides, cervical or vaginal; with manual screening and rescreening under physician supervision
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

Family Planning Medicaid services are provided to an eligible Medicaid beneficiary of childbearing age to temporarily or permanently prevent or delay pregnancy. Medicaid Family Planning is designed to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve the well-being of children and families in North Carolina.

Limits

Limited to one pap test procedure per 365 calendar days.

The pap test may be billed only during an annual assessment, comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation, or any of the six allowed inter-periodic visits under FP Medicaid.

One repeat pap test is allowed only when the initial specimen has insufficient cells.

Any allowed repeat pap test must be performed within 180 calendar days of the first pap test.

Pap tests are billed by CLIA-certified laboratories. For FP Medicaid laboratory procedures, the claim must include the Annual Assessment Date or Comprehensive Preventive Medicine Evaluation Date.

Exclusions

Pap tests are not separately listed as excluded. However, Medicaid does not cover services when the beneficiary does not meet eligibility or coverage criteria, when the service duplicates another provider's service, or when the service is experimental, investigational, or part of a clinical trial. FP Medicaid also does not cover medical conditions unrelated to family planning or family planning-related services.

Place of Service

Non-Telehealth Claims: a. Inpatient hospitals (not applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary) b. Outpatient hospital: For a FP Medicaid beneficiary, the only surgical procedure or service allowed requiring outpatient beneficiary registration is sterilization, IUD removal or ultrasound for IUD related complications including missing strings. c. Office: utilizing offices within places of service 11 (Office), 19 (Off Campus Outpatient) or 22 (On Campus Outpatient) d. Ambulatory Surgical Centers (applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary for a sterilization. Numeric POS code(s): 02-Telehealth Provided Other than in Patient's Home.

Additional Service Specifics

FP. GT applies only when the service is telehealth billable and delivered by interactive audio-video.

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Resources

1E-7 Family Planning Services

Service Code
88155 (CPT) Cytopathology, slides, cervical or vaginal, definitive hormonal evaluation (eg, maturation index, karyopyknotic index, estrogenic index) (List separately in addition to code[s] for other technical and interpretation services)
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

Family Planning Medicaid services are provided to an eligible Medicaid beneficiary of childbearing age to temporarily or permanently prevent or delay pregnancy. Medicaid Family Planning is designed to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve the well-being of children and families in North Carolina.

Limits

Limited to one pap test procedure per 365 calendar days.

The pap test may be billed only during an annual assessment, comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation, or any of the six allowed inter-periodic visits under FP Medicaid.

One repeat pap test is allowed only when the initial specimen has insufficient cells.

Any allowed repeat pap test must be performed within 180 calendar days of the first pap test.

Pap tests are billed by CLIA-certified laboratories. For FP Medicaid laboratory procedures, the claim must include the Annual Assessment Date or Comprehensive Preventive Medicine Evaluation Date.

Exclusions

Pap tests are not separately listed as excluded. However, Medicaid does not cover services when the beneficiary does not meet eligibility or coverage criteria, when the service duplicates another provider's service, or when the service is experimental, investigational, or part of a clinical trial. FP Medicaid also does not cover medical conditions unrelated to family planning or family planning-related services.

Place of Service

Non-Telehealth Claims: a. Inpatient hospitals (not applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary) b. Outpatient hospital: For a FP Medicaid beneficiary, the only surgical procedure or service allowed requiring outpatient beneficiary registration is sterilization, IUD removal or ultrasound for IUD related complications including missing strings. c. Office: utilizing offices within places of service 11 (Office), 19 (Off Campus Outpatient) or 22 (On Campus Outpatient) d. Ambulatory Surgical Centers (applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary for a sterilization. Numeric POS code(s): 02-Telehealth Provided Other than in Patient's Home.

Additional Service Specifics

FP. GT applies only when the service is telehealth billable and delivered by interactive audio-video.

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Resources

Cytopathology, smears, any other source; screening and interpretation

Service Code
88160 (CPT) Cytopathology, smears, any other source; screening and interpretation
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Cytopathology, smears, any other source; preparation, screening and interpretation

Service Code
88161 (CPT) Cytopathology, smears, any other source; preparation, screening and interpretation
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Cytopathology, smears, any other source; extended study involving over 5 slides and/or multiple stains

Service Code
88162 (CPT) Cytopathology, smears, any other source; extended study involving over 5 slides and/or multiple stains
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

1E-7 Family Planning Services

Service Code
88164 (CPT) Cytopathology, slides, cervical or vaginal (the Bethesda System); manual screening under physician supervision
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

Family Planning Medicaid services are provided to an eligible Medicaid beneficiary of childbearing age to temporarily or permanently prevent or delay pregnancy. Medicaid Family Planning is designed to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve the well-being of children and families in North Carolina.

Limits

Limited to one pap test procedure per 365 calendar days.

The pap test may be billed only during an annual assessment, comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation, or any of the six allowed inter-periodic visits under FP Medicaid.

One repeat pap test is allowed only when the initial specimen has insufficient cells.

Any allowed repeat pap test must be performed within 180 calendar days of the first pap test.

Pap tests are billed by CLIA-certified laboratories. For FP Medicaid laboratory procedures, the claim must include the Annual Assessment Date or Comprehensive Preventive Medicine Evaluation Date.

Exclusions

Pap tests are not separately listed as excluded. However, Medicaid does not cover services when the beneficiary does not meet eligibility or coverage criteria, when the service duplicates another provider's service, or when the service is experimental, investigational, or part of a clinical trial. FP Medicaid also does not cover medical conditions unrelated to family planning or family planning-related services.

Place of Service

Non-Telehealth Claims: a. Inpatient hospitals (not applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary) b. Outpatient hospital: For a FP Medicaid beneficiary, the only surgical procedure or service allowed requiring outpatient beneficiary registration is sterilization, IUD removal or ultrasound for IUD related complications including missing strings. c. Office: utilizing offices within places of service 11 (Office), 19 (Off Campus Outpatient) or 22 (On Campus Outpatient) d. Ambulatory Surgical Centers (applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary for a sterilization. Numeric POS code(s): 02-Telehealth Provided Other than in Patient's Home.

Additional Service Specifics

FP. GT applies only when the service is telehealth billable and delivered by interactive audio-video.

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Resources

1E-7 Family Planning Services

Service Code
88165 (CPT) Cytopathology, slides, cervical or vaginal (the Bethesda System); with manual screening and rescreening under physician supervision
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

Family Planning Medicaid services are provided to an eligible Medicaid beneficiary of childbearing age to temporarily or permanently prevent or delay pregnancy. Medicaid Family Planning is designed to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve the well-being of children and families in North Carolina.

Limits

Limited to one pap test procedure per 365 calendar days.

The pap test may be billed only during an annual assessment, comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation, or any of the six allowed inter-periodic visits under FP Medicaid.

One repeat pap test is allowed only when the initial specimen has insufficient cells.

Any allowed repeat pap test must be performed within 180 calendar days of the first pap test.

Pap tests are billed by CLIA-certified laboratories. For FP Medicaid laboratory procedures, the claim must include the Annual Assessment Date or Comprehensive Preventive Medicine Evaluation Date.

Exclusions

Pap tests are not separately listed as excluded. However, Medicaid does not cover services when the beneficiary does not meet eligibility or coverage criteria, when the service duplicates another provider's service, or when the service is experimental, investigational, or part of a clinical trial. FP Medicaid also does not cover medical conditions unrelated to family planning or family planning-related services.

Place of Service

Non-Telehealth Claims: a. Inpatient hospitals (not applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary) b. Outpatient hospital: For a FP Medicaid beneficiary, the only surgical procedure or service allowed requiring outpatient beneficiary registration is sterilization, IUD removal or ultrasound for IUD related complications including missing strings. c. Office: utilizing offices within places of service 11 (Office), 19 (Off Campus Outpatient) or 22 (On Campus Outpatient) d. Ambulatory Surgical Centers (applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary for a sterilization. Numeric POS code(s): 02-Telehealth Provided Other than in Patient's Home.

Additional Service Specifics

FP. GT applies only when the service is telehealth billable and delivered by interactive audio-video.

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Resources

1E-7 Family Planning Services

Service Code
88166 (CPT) Cytopathology, slides, cervical or vaginal (the Bethesda System); with manual screening and computer-assisted rescreening under physician supervision
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

Family Planning Medicaid services are provided to an eligible Medicaid beneficiary of childbearing age to temporarily or permanently prevent or delay pregnancy. Medicaid Family Planning is designed to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve the well-being of children and families in North Carolina.

Limits

Limited to one pap test procedure per 365 calendar days.

The pap test may be billed only during an annual assessment, comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation, or any of the six allowed inter-periodic visits under FP Medicaid.

One repeat pap test is allowed only when the initial specimen has insufficient cells.

Any allowed repeat pap test must be performed within 180 calendar days of the first pap test.

Pap tests are billed by CLIA-certified laboratories. For FP Medicaid laboratory procedures, the claim must include the Annual Assessment Date or Comprehensive Preventive Medicine Evaluation Date.

Exclusions

Pap tests are not separately listed as excluded. However, Medicaid does not cover services when the beneficiary does not meet eligibility or coverage criteria, when the service duplicates another provider's service, or when the service is experimental, investigational, or part of a clinical trial. FP Medicaid also does not cover medical conditions unrelated to family planning or family planning-related services.

Place of Service

Non-Telehealth Claims: a. Inpatient hospitals (not applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary) b. Outpatient hospital: For a FP Medicaid beneficiary, the only surgical procedure or service allowed requiring outpatient beneficiary registration is sterilization, IUD removal or ultrasound for IUD related complications including missing strings. c. Office: utilizing offices within places of service 11 (Office), 19 (Off Campus Outpatient) or 22 (On Campus Outpatient) d. Ambulatory Surgical Centers (applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary for a sterilization. Numeric POS code(s): 02-Telehealth Provided Other than in Patient's Home.

Additional Service Specifics

FP. GT applies only when the service is telehealth billable and delivered by interactive audio-video.

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Resources

1E-7 Family Planning Services

Service Code
88167 (CPT) Cytopathology, slides, cervical or vaginal (the Bethesda System); with manual screening and computer-assisted rescreening using cell selection and review under physician supervision
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

Family Planning Medicaid services are provided to an eligible Medicaid beneficiary of childbearing age to temporarily or permanently prevent or delay pregnancy. Medicaid Family Planning is designed to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve the well-being of children and families in North Carolina.

Limits

Limited to one pap test procedure per 365 calendar days.

The pap test may be billed only during an annual assessment, comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation, or any of the six allowed inter-periodic visits under FP Medicaid.

One repeat pap test is allowed only when the initial specimen has insufficient cells.

Any allowed repeat pap test must be performed within 180 calendar days of the first pap test.

Pap tests are billed by CLIA-certified laboratories. For FP Medicaid laboratory procedures, the claim must include the Annual Assessment Date or Comprehensive Preventive Medicine Evaluation Date.

Exclusions

Pap tests are not separately listed as excluded. However, Medicaid does not cover services when the beneficiary does not meet eligibility or coverage criteria, when the service duplicates another provider's service, or when the service is experimental, investigational, or part of a clinical trial. FP Medicaid also does not cover medical conditions unrelated to family planning or family planning-related services.

Place of Service

Non-Telehealth Claims: a. Inpatient hospitals (not applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary) b. Outpatient hospital: For a FP Medicaid beneficiary, the only surgical procedure or service allowed requiring outpatient beneficiary registration is sterilization, IUD removal or ultrasound for IUD related complications including missing strings. c. Office: utilizing offices within places of service 11 (Office), 19 (Off Campus Outpatient) or 22 (On Campus Outpatient) d. Ambulatory Surgical Centers (applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary for a sterilization. Numeric POS code(s): 02-Telehealth Provided Other than in Patient's Home.

Additional Service Specifics

FP. GT applies only when the service is telehealth billable and delivered by interactive audio-video.

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Resources

Cytopathology, evaluation of fine needle aspirate; immediate cytohistologic study to determine adequacy for diagnosis, first evaluation episode, each site

Service Code
88172 (CPT) Cytopathology, evaluation of fine needle aspirate; immediate cytohistologic study to determine adequacy for diagnosis, first evaluation episode, each site
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Cytopathology, evaluation of fine needle aspirate; interpretation and report

Service Code
88173 (CPT) Cytopathology, evaluation of fine needle aspirate; interpretation and report
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

1E-7 Family Planning Services

Service Code
88174 (CPT) Cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation; screening by automated system, under physician supervision
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

Family Planning Medicaid services are provided to an eligible Medicaid beneficiary of childbearing age to temporarily or permanently prevent or delay pregnancy. Medicaid Family Planning is designed to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve the well-being of children and families in North Carolina.

Limits

Limited to one pap test procedure per 365 calendar days.

The pap test may be billed only during an annual assessment, comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation, or any of the six allowed inter-periodic visits under FP Medicaid.

One repeat pap test is allowed only when the initial specimen has insufficient cells.

Any allowed repeat pap test must be performed within 180 calendar days of the first pap test.

Pap tests are billed by CLIA-certified laboratories. For FP Medicaid laboratory procedures, the claim must include the Annual Assessment Date or Comprehensive Preventive Medicine Evaluation Date.

Exclusions

Pap tests are not separately listed as excluded. However, Medicaid does not cover services when the beneficiary does not meet eligibility or coverage criteria, when the service duplicates another provider's service, or when the service is experimental, investigational, or part of a clinical trial. FP Medicaid also does not cover medical conditions unrelated to family planning or family planning-related services.

Place of Service

Non-Telehealth Claims: a. Inpatient hospitals (not applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary) b. Outpatient hospital: For a FP Medicaid beneficiary, the only surgical procedure or service allowed requiring outpatient beneficiary registration is sterilization, IUD removal or ultrasound for IUD related complications including missing strings. c. Office: utilizing offices within places of service 11 (Office), 19 (Off Campus Outpatient) or 22 (On Campus Outpatient) d. Ambulatory Surgical Centers (applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary for a sterilization. Numeric POS code(s): 02-Telehealth Provided Other than in Patient's Home.

Additional Service Specifics

FP. GT applies only when the service is telehealth billable and delivered by interactive audio-video.

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Resources

1E-7 Family Planning Services

Service Code
88175 (CPT) Cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation; with screening by automated system and manual rescreening or review, under physician supervision
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

Family Planning Medicaid services are provided to an eligible Medicaid beneficiary of childbearing age to temporarily or permanently prevent or delay pregnancy. Medicaid Family Planning is designed to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve the well-being of children and families in North Carolina.

Limits

Limited to one pap test procedure per 365 calendar days.

The pap test may be billed only during an annual assessment, comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation, or any of the six allowed inter-periodic visits under FP Medicaid.

One repeat pap test is allowed only when the initial specimen has insufficient cells.

Any allowed repeat pap test must be performed within 180 calendar days of the first pap test.

Pap tests are billed by CLIA-certified laboratories. For FP Medicaid laboratory procedures, the claim must include the Annual Assessment Date or Comprehensive Preventive Medicine Evaluation Date.

Exclusions

Pap tests are not separately listed as excluded. However, Medicaid does not cover services when the beneficiary does not meet eligibility or coverage criteria, when the service duplicates another provider's service, or when the service is experimental, investigational, or part of a clinical trial. FP Medicaid also does not cover medical conditions unrelated to family planning or family planning-related services.

Place of Service

Non-Telehealth Claims: a. Inpatient hospitals (not applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary) b. Outpatient hospital: For a FP Medicaid beneficiary, the only surgical procedure or service allowed requiring outpatient beneficiary registration is sterilization, IUD removal or ultrasound for IUD related complications including missing strings. c. Office: utilizing offices within places of service 11 (Office), 19 (Off Campus Outpatient) or 22 (On Campus Outpatient) d. Ambulatory Surgical Centers (applicable for a FP Medicaid beneficiary for a sterilization. Numeric POS code(s): 02-Telehealth Provided Other than in Patient's Home.

Additional Service Specifics

FP. GT applies only when the service is telehealth billable and delivered by interactive audio-video.

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Resources

Cytopathology, evaluation of fine needle aspirate; immediate cytohistologic study to determine adequacy for diagnosis, each separate additional evaluation episode, same site (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure)

Service Code
88177 (CPT) Cytopathology, evaluation of fine needle aspirate; immediate cytohistologic study to determine adequacy for diagnosis, each separate additional evaluation episode, same site (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure)
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Flow cytometry, cell cycle or DNA analysis

Service Code
88182 (CPT) Flow cytometry, cell cycle or DNA analysis
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Flow cytometry, cell surface, cytoplasmic, or nuclear marker, technical component only; first marker

Service Code
88184 (CPT) Flow cytometry, cell surface, cytoplasmic, or nuclear marker, technical component only; first marker
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Flow cytometry, cell surface, cytoplasmic, or nuclear marker, technical component only; each additional marker (List separately in addition to code for first marker)

Service Code
88185 (CPT) Flow cytometry, cell surface, cytoplasmic, or nuclear marker, technical component only; each additional marker (List separately in addition to code for first marker)
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Flow cytometry, interpretation; 2 to 8 markers

Service Code
88187 (CPT) Flow cytometry, interpretation; 2 to 8 markers
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Flow cytometry, interpretation; 9 to 15 markers

Service Code
88188 (CPT) Flow cytometry, interpretation; 9 to 15 markers
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required

Flow cytometry, interpretation; 16 or more markers

Service Code
88189 (CPT) Flow cytometry, interpretation; 16 or more markers
Prior Authorization Required
No
Benefit Plan
Medicaid
Diagnosis Group
Physical Health

How to Submit

N/A - No authorization is required