About this policy
Jurisdiction: JE Part B. States: California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands. Type: Active LCD
Coverage indications
This is a laboratory test which will assist physicians caring for patients who have developed pulmonary (lung) scarring. This policy provides limited coverage for the Envisia™ Genomic Classifier (Veracyte™, Inc., South San Francisco, CA), a tissue based multi-analyte assay with algorithm analysis test (hereafter called Envisia™) for interstitial lung disease (ILD) patients who are suspected of having idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and who do not have a definitive usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern by high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) or other known cause of ILD. IPF suspicion increases significantly in patients greater than 60 years of age when HRCT is not definitive, and comorbidities in this population make clinicians reluctant to perform surgical lung biopsy to obtain a diagnosis due to significant procedure morbidity and mortality. Envisia™ testing is performed on less-invasive bronchoscopy transbronchial biopsy (TBB) samples and is intended to provide a categorical UIP or non-UIP result that along with clinical and radiographic information may guide treatment without the need or risk of surgical lung biopsy.
Codes in this policy
Code numbers and each code’s status as the policy records it. CPT code descriptions are left out of this page, as are the passages that cite CPT codes; the official document has them.