You’ll find the latest LCD news and information on the Medical Coverage page. For more information, please review the finding First Coast LCDs and related coverage information -- how-to guide. 

LCDs are developed to deny coverage or limit coverage of a service to specific conditions or frequencies. First Coast will consider reasonable and necessary services for payment in the absence of an LCD, billing and coding article, NCD, or CMS manual instruction limiting coverage.

You’ll find information regarding the status, comment periods, and release dates of proposed LCDs on the Proposed LCDs page.

The best way to stay informed is to subscribe to eNews, First Coast’s electronic mailing service. You’ll receive regular and special email notifications advising you of changes to the Medicare program. You may subscribe to as many lists as you wish including those exclusively focused on news related to LCDs. Subscribe to eNews.

No, the IDM authentication system will only send one passcode to one device at a time. However, secondary devices should be registered in the event the first MFA device does not generate. Refer to Multifactor authentication and SPOT registration for details. 

No. Each MFA device must be used for the SPOT account for which it’s registered. 

Yes. It is recommended that you register more than one MFA device. To register a second or third device, follow the steps you took in registering your initial MFA device. When logging into SPOT, you will select only one of these devices to receive your MFA passcode. Registration of additional devices ensures your access to SPOT should other devices not function properly. Passcodes change each time you log in to SPOT.

You can search for billing and coding articles by diagnosis code on the CMS website. The Medicare Coverage Database (MCD) allows you to search for billing and coding articles related to the LCDs in a variety of ways including keywords, “A number,” CPT/HCPCS procedure codes, and ICD-10 diagnosis codes.

The Active, Future, and Retired LCDs page includes convenient links to First Coast’s LCDs published on the CMS Medicare Coverage Database (MCD). We’ve done the hard work for you -- just select the link for your location and line of business.