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My claim was returned as being investigational. What does investigational mean?

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Written by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana
Updated over a week ago

A medical treatment, procedure, drug, device, or biological product is investigational if its effectiveness has not been established by credible scientific evidence published in peer-reviewed medical literature generally recognized by the relevant medical community and it has not been incorporated into standard medical practice. 

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