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Reconstruction midface, LeFort I; 3 or more pieces, segment movement in any direction, requiring bone grafts (includes obtaining autografts) (eg, ungrafted bilateral alveolar cleft or multiple osteotomies)
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction midface, LeFort II; anterior intrusion (eg, Treacher-Collins Syndrome)
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction midface, LeFort II; any direction, requiring bone grafts (includes obtaining autografts)
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction midface, LeFort III (extracranial), any type, requiring bone grafts (includes obtaining autografts); without LeFort I
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction midface, LeFort III (extracranial), any type, requiring bone grafts (includes obtaining autografts); with LeFort I
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction midface, LeFort III (extra and intracranial) with forehead advancement (eg, mono bloc), requiring bone grafts (includes obtaining autografts); without LeFort I
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction midface, LeFort III (extra and intracranial) with forehead advancement (eg, mono bloc), requiring bone grafts (includes obtaining autografts); with LeFort I
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction superior-lateral orbital rim and lower forehead, advancement or alteration, with or without grafts (includes obtaining autografts)
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Reconstruction, bifrontal, superior-lateral orbital rims and lower forehead, advancement or alteration (eg, plagiocephaly, trigonocephaly, brachycephaly), with or without grafts (includes obtaining autografts)
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Reconstruction, entire or majority of forehead and/or supraorbital rims; with grafts (allograft or prosthetic material)
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Reconstruction, entire or majority of forehead and/or supraorbital rims; with autograft (includes obtaining grafts)
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Reconstruction by contouring of benign tumor of cranial bones (eg, fibrous dysplasia), extracranial
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Reconstruction of orbital walls, rims, forehead, nasoethmoid complex following intra- and extracranial excision of benign tumor of cranial bone (eg, fibrous dysplasia), with multiple autografts (includes obtaining grafts); total area of bone grafting less
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Reconstruction of orbital walls, rims, forehead, nasoethmoid complex following intra- and extracranial excision of benign tumor of cranial bone (eg, fibrous dysplasia), with multiple autografts (includes obtaining grafts); total area of bone grafting grea
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Reconstruction of orbital walls, rims, forehead, nasoethmoid complex following intra- and extracranial excision of benign tumor of cranial bone (eg, fibrous dysplasia), with multiple autografts (includes obtaining grafts); total area of bone grafting grea
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction midface, osteotomies (other than LeFort type) and bone grafts (includes obtaining autografts)
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Reconstruction of mandibular rami, horizontal, vertical, C, or L osteotomy; without bone graft
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction of mandibular rami, horizontal, vertical, C, or L osteotomy; with bone graft (includes obtaining graft)
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction of mandibular rami and/or body, sagittal split; without internal rigid fixation
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
Reconstruction of mandibular rami and/or body, sagittal split; with internal rigid fixation
Authorization Guidelines
The following information shall be submitted with each prior approval request:
- a. The location and cause of the defect;
- b. Pre-operative photographs;
- c. CPT codes describing the procedures to be performed; and
- d. Supporting documentation that the treatment can reasonably be expected to
improve the impairment.
How to Submit
Please submit your request to Trillium Health Resources
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