June 2010

Welcome to The Connection Online

This publication contains important information, including updates to policies and procedures, for physicians, dentists, other health care and dental professionals, facilities and their staff.

Editions are published in February, April, June, August, October and December. As a reminder, our newsletter will be published online only. You will no longer receive paper issues of The ConnectionSM or Dental News.

If you haven't already, please subscribe to receive email notifications when new editions are available.

Note: Other important updates can be found in our What's New section.

 

Online communications between providers and patients

Our Enhanced Provider Profile tool offers providers an online presence and the capability to share, promote and communicate with current and prospective patients, without engaging office staff on a daily basis.

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General Health Assessment online member tool

Our General Health Assessment tool on myAsuris.com allows members to quickly and easily assess their overall health, fitness and well-being.

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Administrative and Billing

 

Products and Programs

Policies

Changes to our medical and reimbursement policies are listed below. Learn how policies are reviewed. Our Coding Toolkit includes codes that require clinical information (updated monthly), a complete list of code groupings and our Correct Code Editor (updated quarterly).

Medical

Reimbursement

Medication

Summaries of recent changes (PDF) and detailed policies are available in our Medication Policy Manual at http://blue.regence.com/policy/medication/

View our group and Individual products Preferred Medication List/Formulary.

Search the Asuris TruAdvantageTM + Rx and Medicare Part D formulary.