Über 6 Millionen Amerikaner, die Medicare beziehen, müssen für diese 17 Verfahren nun eine vorherige Genehmigung von AI einholen
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/over-6-million-americans-on-medicare-will-now-need-to-get-prior-authorization-from-ai-for-these-17-procedures-0cf605a2
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Only 3 procedures actually listed in the article.
Here you go.
1. Electrical nerve stimulators (general category) 
2. Sacral nerve stimulation for urinary incontinence 
3. Phrenic nerve stimulator 
4. Deep brain stimulation for essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease 
5. Vagus nerve stimulation 
6. Induced lesions of nerve tracts 
7. Epidural steroid injections for pain management (excluding facet-joint injections) 
8. Percutaneous vertebral augmentation (PVA) for vertebral compression fractures 
9. Cervical fusion surgery 
10. Arthroscopic lavage and debridement for the osteoarthritic knee 
11. Hypoglossal nerve stimulation for obstructive sleep apnea 
12. Incontinence control devices 
13. Diagnosis and treatment of impotence 
14. Percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression for spinal stenosis 
15. Skin and tissue substitutes (general) 
16. Application of bioengineered skin substitutes to chronic non-healing lower extremity wounds 
17. Wound application of cellular and/or tissue-based products (CTPs) for lower extremity wounds
Edit: how do I fix the formatting. This hurts my oCD eyes.
I’ll add this to the bucket list of why I don’t want to visit a nazi dystopia