This Part (a specific letter) of Medicare covers the cost of intermittent catheters and other DME.
What is Part B?
100
When convenient, the urethral sphincter and pelvic floor will relax and the detrusor muscle contracts resulting in this urologic function.
What is voiding?
100
A minimally invasive, computer-assisted surgery using remote tele-presence manipulators to make small incisions.
What is "Robotic Surgery"?
100
180 Medical offers these 3 materials of intermittent catheters.
What is vinyl, silicone and red rubber?
100
This bodily organ is a hollow muscular sack that expands as it fills with urine.
What is the bladdar?
200
The year Medicare changed their coverage from 4 catheters per month to 200/month.
What is 2008?
200
A common enlargement of the prostate gland, generally begins in men after age 30, impeding the flow of urine from the bladdar through the urethra.
What is BPH? (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia)
200
A surgery done to treat BPH, using a resectoscope to trim away excess prostate tissue.
What is TURP? (Transurethral Resection of the Prostate).
200
The 4 major parts of an intermittent catheter.
What are funnel, catheter tube, drainage eye, and distal tip?
200
A pair of organs located at the back of the abdominal cavity that make urine through blood filtration.
What are kidneys?
300
Medicare requires documentation of what for coverage of "advanced product" - closed system or hydrophilic catheters w/ insertion supplies?
What is documentation of 2 UTI's and concurrent symptoms?
300
This condition is caused by bacteria that invade the urinary system and multiply, leading to an infection.
What is UTI (urinary tract infection)?
300
This is a diagnostic study of pressure in the bladder. Testing reveals how well the bladdar, sphincter and urethra hold and release urine.
What is UroDynamics?
300
To bill for an IC reimbursement, 180 Medical must have this code to submit a claim.
What is a HCPC? (Healthcare Common Procedure Code)
300
A tube-like organ, which enables the emptying of the urinary bladder.
What is the urethra?
400
The concurrent symptoms acceptable for Medicare coverage include. (Name 2)
What is fever
systemic leucocytosis
change in urgency freq, or incontinence
autonomic dysreflexia
prostatitis
epididymitis
orchitis
increased muscle spasms?
400
Involuntary contractions of muscles in the bladder, which can cause lack of control of urination.
What is irritable bladdar?
400
A new "revolutionary" minimally invasive approach to treating an enlarged prostate, that lifts and holds the prostate out of the way rather than cutting heating or removing the tissue.
What is UroLift?
400
3 of 5 medical complications that inhibit one's ability to self-catherize.
What is 1) urethral bleeding 2) UTI 3) Urethritis 4) stricture 5) False Passage?
400
A pair of small tubes that connect the kidneys to the urinary bladder that form a vital link in the urinary tract by allowing urine to drain from the kidneys to be stored in the bladdar.
What is Ureter?
500
The 2 urine cultures in lab reports must be greater than _______ CFUs (colony forming units).
What is 10,000?
500
Inflammation of the prostate.
What is Prostatitis?
500
A procedure done to break up stones in the urinary tract using ultrasonic shock waves, so that the fragments can be easily passed from the body.
What is Lithotripsy?
500
All manufacturers designate this feature to universally identify the size.