On April 23, 2026, at DAAs request Council authorized an amendment to the management agreement to extend the term to April 30, 2031, and update the 5-year Service and Assessment Plan and Budget to align with the extended term ( Council Item #11 & Council Item #12 )
As this is below the threshold of 100 claims for a service within a year, we propose to apply our universal low volume APC policy and use the highest of the geometric mean cost, arithmetic mean cost, or median cost based on up to 4 years of claims data to assign CPT code 0686T to the appropriate New Technology APC
Controlled trials evaluating MIC blends specifically are limited, and most available data are based on clinical experience or drawn from small cohorts
, stable in human gastric juice more than 24 hours, and use without carrier (otherwise, peptide + carrier(s) -complex bears considerable methodological/activity dilemmas), prominent antiulcer effect, and a safe application in inflammatory bowel disease patients with improved wound/intestinal anastomosis healing, adhesion prevention, collagen deposition, and anastomotic strength, along with prominent effect in cuprizone rats ( i.e