How AI Reports on a New LCD: 11 Rules

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GENERAL RULES:  COMPARE DRAFT AND FINAL LCDS

Please perform the following steeps and analysis. 

Medicare documents by document number are found at:

https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/search.aspx

#1 Find LCD L40140, new final version fo public notice (issued in July 2026).

#2 Find LCD DL40140, proposed in Summer 2025.

WRITING

#3 Describe for the reader in a few sentences the purpose of the LCD (orient the reader to the topic, but concisely). 

#4  Compare the body of the document for changes in L40140 compared to DL40140.  There may be few (e.g. spelling, punctuation) or significant changes. If there are significant changes, discuss them in general.  Discuss changes in bibliography.

#5  Now compare the coverage rules of each document.  This is the section “Coverage Indications, Limitations, and/or Medical Necessity”.  Compare Dl40140 old version to L40140 new version.   These changes in coverage rules are the most important to our readers. 

#6 Describe the differences in coverage rules.

#7 Now print the coverage rules in L4140, and then next print your editorial improvement, simplification, logical flow, and improved clarity.  This is a good skill that you have (in past LCDs).

#8 Now address the lengthy exchanges in A60439.  It’s quite unusual to go on for 194 pages, but the constituents (labs) had tens of millioins of dollars to win or lose based on small wording changes.

 #9 Now, having discussed the document and discussed the response to comments, in your closing section, discuss what you can glean as to the medical director’s interests, biases, skills, preferences, and overall approach to policy writing in this area.   The details of the outcome are  highly watched by Wall St and industry both.

 #10  Write 500 word story for blog

#11 Make portrait png report cover