Most of the time it is not medically necessary.

It did not try to determine whether the tests were medically necessary.

Based on medical evidence, they have determined that the procedure is not medically necessary.

Doctors would do so by writing "medically necessary" on prescriptions.

But Medicare refused to cover her stay, saying it was not medically necessary.

First, the Senate bill gives insurance companies rather than doctors the authority to decide what care is medically necessary.

Until then, they paid for only one day unless a longer stay was considered medically necessary.

However, American consumers need access to all kinds of medically necessary care.

How many deaths are acceptable from a drug that is never medically necessary?

It will cover medically necessary doctors' services and hospital care.