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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 10.09.09.05" title_num="10" subtitle_num="09" chapter_num="09" heading="Limitations.">
  <text>The following are not covered:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Services for which the medical laboratory provider cannot supply a properly completed order or standing order identifying the individual practitioner who ordered the laboratory services;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Services not adequately documented in the participant’s medical records;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Services denied by Medicare as not medically necessary;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Clinical laboratory services, for which certification by HCFA under CLIA is required, when these services are performed by laboratories that are not certified to perform those services;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Procedures that the provider knows or should know are investigational or experimental in nature;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Services included by the Program as part of the charge made by an inpatient facility, hospital outpatient department, freestanding clinic, or other Program-recognized entity;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Medical laboratory services related to autopsies;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>Medical laboratory services for which there was insufficient quantity of specimen, improper specimen handling, or other circumstances that would render the results unreliable; and</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="I.">
    <text>Laboratory services ordered by an:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Individual who is not enrolled as a provider in the Program with an active status on the date of service; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Entity, facility, or another provider that is not an individual.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>