CMS Pub. 100-01, ch. 3, § 20.4

There is no deductible for screening mammography effective for services January 1, 1998

and later.

Neither the annual deductible nor the 20 percent coinsurance apply with respect to:

• Parts A and B home health services, except that there is a coinsurance of 20

percent of the payment amount for supplies, drugs, DME and prosthetics

/orthotics furnished as a home health benefit;

• Clinical diagnostic laboratory tests (including specimen collection fees)

performed or supervised by a physician, laboratory, or other entity paid on an

assigned basis;

• Pneumococcal vaccine and its administration;

• Influenza vaccine and its administration; and

• Services or items denied as medically unnecessary.

NOTE: Services which are not subject to the deductible cannot be used to satisfy the

deductible.