Cognitive rehabilitation (as a distinct and definable component of the rehabilitation process) may be considered medically necessary in the rehabilitation of patients with cognitive impairment due to traumatic brain injury and autism spectrum disorder.
Cognitive rehabilitation (as a distinct and definable component of the rehabilitation process) is considered investigational for all other applications, including, but not limited to, stroke, postencephalitic or postencephalopathy patients, seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, the aging population, including patients with Alzheimer disease, patients with cognitive deficits due to brain tumor or previous treatment for cancer, and patients with post-acute cognitive sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
