Criteria
When flexible bronchoscopy alone, or with endobronchial ultrasound, is considered inadequate to accomplish the diagnostic or interventional objective, electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) may be considered medically necessary to:
- Establish a diagnosis of suspicious peripheral pulmonary lesion(s) or
- To place fiducial markers within lung tumor(s) prior to treatment.
Electronic navigational bronchoscopy is considered experimental/investigational and, therefore, non-covered because the safety and/or effectiveness of this service cannot be established by the available published peer-reviewed literature.
Procedure Codes