US · guidance
CMS Pub. 100-08, ch. 13, § 13.3.3
Process Requirements
The requestor shall submit a valid LCD reconsideration request to the appropriate MAC,
following instructions on the MAC's Web site.
Within 60 calendar days of the day the request is received, the MAC shall determine whether the
request is valid or invalid. If the request is invalid, the contractor shall respond, in writing, to
the requestor explaining why the request was invalid. If the request is valid, the contractor shall
follow the requirements below.
The MAC shall open the LCD and follow the LCD process as outlined in section 13.2 of this
manual or include the LCD on the MAC’s waiting list. The MAC shall respond, in writing, to the
requestor notifying the requestor of the acceptance, and if applicable, wait-listing, of the
reconsideration request.
Contractors shall keep an internal list of the LCD Reconsideration Requests received and the
dates, subject, and disposition of each one.
History
(Rev. 863; Issued: 02-12-19; Effective: 10-03-18; Implementation: 01-08-19)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
2449ed541ee864368f51906e30db377350098558032f1a4d1c189846af8a0573
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.