# OnCo record medicare-ncd-110-20 (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/medicare-ncd-110-20/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "medicare-ncd-110-20" ;
  schema:name "Medicare NCD 110.20: blood-brain barrier osmotic disruption for brain tumours"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "NCD 110.20"@en, "Blood Brain Barrier Osmotic Disruption for Treatment of Brain Tumors"@en, "BBBD"@en ;
  schema:description "Medicare does not pay for opening the blood-brain barrier with an osmotic infusion as part of chemotherapy for brain tumours. Chemotherapy itself remains covered."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/medicare-ncd-110-20/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/ncd.aspx?ncdid=319&ncdver=1>, <https://api.coverage.cms.gov/v1/data/ncd?ncdid=319&ncdver=1> ;
  onco:tag "us" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/technologies/bbb-focused-ultrasound/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/brain-tumours/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/cms/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/blood-brain-barrier/> .