2. Equipment presumptively nonmedical. Equipment which is primarily and customarily used for a nonmedical purpose may not be considered âmedicalâ equipment for program payment even though the item has some remote medically related use.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) physicians, also known as physiatrists, treat a wide variety of medical conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons.
Internal medicine doctors, who frequently are called internists, are physicians who care largely for adults and treat a broad assortment of diseases and injuries to the internal organs. Specialists who focus on specific internal organs, such as cardiologists and gastroenterologists, are not considered internists.