US · guidance
CMS Pub. 100-04, ch. 18, § 50.7
MSN Messages
B3-4182.8.B, A3-3616.F
If a claim for screening prostate specific antigen test or a screening digital rectal examination is
being denied because of the age of the beneficiary, A/B MACs (A) use MSN message 18.13:
This service is not covered for patients under 50 years of age.
The Spanish version of this MSN message should read:
Este servicio no está cubierto hasta después de que el beneficiario cumpla 50 años.
A/B MACs (B) use MSN Message 18.19:
This service is not covered until after the patient’s 50th birthday.
The Spanish version of this MSN message should read:
Este servicio no está cubierto hasta después de que el beneficiario cumpla 50 años.
If the claim for screening prostate specific antigen test or screening digital rectal examination is
being denied because the time period between the same test or procedure has not passed, A/B
MACs (A) and (B) use MSN message 18.14:
Service is being denied because it has not been 12 months since your last test/procedure) of
this kind.
The Spanish version of this MSN message should read:
Este servicio está siendo denegado ya que no han transcurrido (12, 24, 48) meses
desde el último (examen/procedimiento) de esta clase.
History
(Rev. 1, 10-01-03)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
8d5b9f54467a562aebf21f0aef2878a83be12a03253aab87cdd74dcce8e809c0
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.