907 KAR 1:012. Inpatient hospital services.

      RELATES TO: KRS 205.520

      STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 194A.050, 42 C.F.R. 440.10, 42 U.S.C. 1396, a, b, d, r-4

      NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: The Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Medicaid Services has responsibility to administer the Medicaid Program. KRS 205.520 authorizes the cabinet, by administrative regulation, to comply with any requirement that may be imposed or opportunity presented by federal law for the provision of medical assistance to Kentucky's indigent citizenry. This administrative regulation establishes the provisions relating to inpatient hospital services for which payment shall be made by the Medicaid Program for a hospital inpatient service.

      Section 1. Definitions. (1) "Department" means the Department for Medicaid Services or its designee.

      (2) "Emergency" means a condition or situation which requires an emergency service pursuant to 42 C.F.R. 447.53.

      (3) "Medical necessity" or "medically necessary" means that a covered benefit is determined to be needed in accordance with 907 KAR 3:130.

      (4) "Nonemergency" means a condition or situation which does not require an emergency service pursuant to 42 C.F.R. 447.53.

      Section 2. Prior Authorization. To be covered by the department:

      (1) Prior to a nonemergency admission, including an elective admission or a weekend admission the department shall have made a determination that the nonemergency admission was:

      (a) Medically necessary; and

      (b) Clinically appropriate pursuant to the criteria established in 907 KAR 3:130; and.

      (2) Within seventy-two (72) hours after an emergency admission, the department shall have made a determination that the emergency admission was:

      (a) Medically necessary; and

      (b) Clinically appropriate pursuant to the criteria established in 907 KAR 3:130.

      Section 3. Covered Admissions. (1) An admission primarily indicated in the management of acute or chronic illness, injury or impairment, or for maternity care that could not be rendered on an outpatient basis shall be covered.

      (2) An admission relating to only observation or diagnostic purposes shall not be covered.

      (3) Cosmetic surgery shall not be covered except as required for prompt repair of accidental injury or for the improvement of the functioning of a malformed or diseased body member.

      Section 4. Noncovered Services. Inpatient hospital services not covered shall include:

      (1) A service which is not medically necessary including television, telephone, or guest meals;

      (2) Private duty nursing;

      (3) Supplies, drugs, appliances, or equipment which are furnished to the patient for use outside the hospital unless it would be considered unreasonable or impossible from a medical standpoint to limit the patient's use of the item to the periods during which he is an inpatient;

      (4) A laboratory test not specifically ordered by a physician and not done on a preadmission basis unless an emergency exists;

      (5) Private accommodations unless medically necessary and so ordered by the attending physician; or

      (6) The following listed surgical procedures, except if a life-threatening situation exists, there is another primary purpose for the admission, or the admitting physician certifies a medical necessity requiring admission to a hospital:

      (a) Biopsy: breast, cervical node, cervix, lesions (skin, subcutaneous, submucous), lymph node (except high axillary excision), or muscle;

      (b) Cauterization or cryotherapy: lesions (skin, subcutaneous, submucous), moles, polyps, warts or condylomas, anterior nose bleeds, or cervix;

      (c) Circumcision;

      (d) Dilation: dilation and curettage (diagnostic or therapeutic nonobstetrical); dilation or probing of lacrimal duct;

      (e) Drainage by incision or aspiration: cutaneous, subcutaneous, or joint;

      (f) Pelvic exam under anesthesia;

      (g) Excision: bartholin cyst, condylomas, foreign body, lesions lipoma, nevi (moles), sebaceous cyst, polyps, or subcutaneous fistulas;

      (h) Extraction: foreign body or teeth;

      (i) Graft, skin (pinch, splint or full thickness up to defect size three-fourths (3/4) inch diameter);

      (j) Hymenotomy;

      (k) Manipulation and reduction with or without x-ray; cast change: dislocations depending upon the joint and indication for procedure or fractures;

      (l) Meatotomy or urethral dilation, removal calculus and drainage of bladder without incision;

      (m) Myringotomy with or without tubes, otoplasty;

      (n) Oscopy with or without biopsy (with or without salpingogram): arthroscopy, bronchoscopy, colonoscopy, culdoscopy, cystoscopy, esophagoscopy, endoscopy, gastroscopy, hysteroscopy, laryngoscopy, laparoscopy, peritoneoscopy, otoscopy, and sigmoidoscopy or procto sidmoidoscopy;

      (o) Removal; IUD, fingernail or toenails;

      (p) Tenotomy hand or foot;

      (q) Vasectomy; or

      (r) Z-plasty for relaxation of scar or contracture. (Recodified from 904 KAR 1:012; Am. 16 Ky.R. 260; eff. 9-20-89; 1079; eff. 1-12-90; 18 Ky.R. 525; eff. 10-6-91; 27 Ky.R. 245; 1264; eff. 11-17-2000; 33 Ky.R. 576; 1366;1548; eff. 1-5-07.)