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SIS Calls for Blue Shield of California to Revise its Regional Sympathetic Blocks Medical Policy

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

While supporting Blue Shield of California’s current fluoroscopic guidance requirement for lumbar diagnostic regional sympathetic blocks, in an October 26, 2017 letter SIS recommended revisions to the medical policy to cover either fluoroscopic or ultrasound guidance for cervical diagnostic regional sympathetic blocks (stellate ganglion blocks).

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