CMS considers prostate screening pay Good news: When it comes to prostate screenings, covered ICD-9 codes may finally be catching up to covered services. When Medicare developed its national coverage determination for clinical diagnostic laboratory services, Medicare didn't cover prostate cancer screening. Now it does.
Problem: Medicare didn't remove V76.44 (Special screening for malignant neoplasms; prostate) from the list of noncovered screening codes.
Stay tuned: Medicare proposed removing V76.44 from the noncovered list. We-ll let you know the outcome when it's announced.