Kosilek recently sued again, arguing that gender reassignment surgery was medically necessary for his care.
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But the newly-created NHS ruled that circumcision was not medically necessary, and therefore would not be covered.
They could face significant conflicts-of-interest when they consider a patient readmission medically necessary but the hospital administrator thinks otherwise.
No politician would be caught dead admitting this, of course: most promise that all will receive whatever is medically necessary.
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That will hurt folks who really need the accounts to help with big-ticket items like orthodontia, or special education costs deemed medically necessary.
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This conflict of interest is a problem, as it can influence physicians both consciously and unconsciously, to offer more treatment than is medically necessary.
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Physicians are able to prescribe products as they see medically necessary.
Ultimately, the problem we are wrestling with is the rising cost of medically necessary health CARE, while you are arguing for a more competitive payment process.
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Instead they want him to wear sunglasses even though his eye doctor wrote a letter stating that it is medically necessary for him to use the tinted visor.
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With only a minimum of electricity generated by diesel generators to run monitors, ventilators and other medically necessary equipment, a skeleton crew has kept watch over the hospital.
She claimed the costs of the procedures on her federal income tax return as a medical deduction, arguing that the procedures were medically necessary and not for cosmetic reasons.
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Part A covers a large portion of hospital-related costs for eligible people over the age of 65 and only includes medically necessary and skilled care, not custodial care.
The Leapfrog Group, a coalition of big corporate health-care purchasers, in 2009 began asking hospitals around the nation to report their rate of early term induced births that weren't medically necessary.
Weight loss surgery, since it has a cosmetic component, can be controversial at best so make sure that you have great documentation to prove that it was medically necessary and ordered by a doctor.
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He added that the issue of same-sex marriage was not relevant to this case, and that W's gender change surgery had been considered medically necessary, and been performed in a public hospital using government funds.
That includes no supplementation unless medically necessary.
Dr Bockting says a more appropriate standard for new identity documents would be evidence the role change is permanent and medically necessary to relieve the stress would-be transgender people experience from the conflict between their gender identity and their birth sex.
Paradoxically, the authors say, the consumer movement in health care encourages patients to request "the latest and greatest" tests and screening even when they aren't medically necessary, further encouraging doctors to order more rather than focus on the relationship with the patient.
Dr. Rick Arthur, medical director of the California Horse Racing Board, said too often officials have played "gotcha" with owners and trainers, who had to worry they would be penalized for race-day residue from drugs that were legal and medically necessary when they were used.
Placement in any of these programs requires that a potential resident be medically stable, have sufficient functional defects to make inpatient nursing home care necessary, and receive an assessment by a medical provider that states institutional nursing home care is necessary.
The agency recommends that use of "medically important antimicrobial drugs" in food-producing animals be restricted to situations where they are necessary to ensure animal health, and used under veterinary supervision, Isa said.
Based on a thorough review of the available scientific information, FDA has created a strategy for the judicious use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals that states their use should be limited to situations where the drugs are necessary for ensuring animal health, and done so under veterinary guidance.
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