Posted in Insurance, Payers and CPT reinbursement

EmblemHealth Preventive Care/Screening Services Coverage-(update)

In 2019-

Under the Affordable Care Act, Emblem covers the following codes: G0442,G0443, G0444, G0445, G0446, G0446. When billing both E/M codes and the above mentioned G-codes, both modifier 25 and 59 have to be appended to the codes, respectively.

EmblemHealth will pay the claims with the above mentioned codes that have the appropriate above mentioned Modifiers retroactively to 07/15/2016.

Any claims billed on 11/12/2018 will be reviewed prospectively.

There is no need to resubmit the claims. All affected claims will be re-processed.

Posted in In The Know Series, Insurance, Training

EmblemHealth Plans that DO NOT require a REFERRAL-2019

The following is the list of all the EmblemHealh Plans for 2019 that do not require a referral from their primary to see a specialist.

Commercial Plans:

Access I/II, EmblemHealth Platinum Choice, EmblemHealth Gold Choice, EmblemHealth Silver Choice, EmblemHelath Gold Premier 1, EmblemHealth Silver Plus1, EmblemHealth Silver Premier, EmblemHealth Platinum Premier, EmblemHealth Gold Premier, EmblemHealth EPO Value, EmblemHealth EPO Value HDHP

Medicare Advantage Plans:

EmblemHealth VIP  Go (HMO-POS) plans, EmblemHealth Affinity Medicare Passport Essentials (HMO), EmblemHealth Affinitiy Medicare Passport Essentials NYC (HMO), EmblemHealth Affinity Medicare Utimate (HMO SNP), and EmblemHealth Affinity Medicare Solutions (HMO SNP)

Remember if the EmblemHealth HIP plan has a Montefiore Logo and you are going to the provider associated with Montefiore you still also DO NOT Require a referral to see that specialist.

Posted in In The Know Series, Insurance, My services, Uncategorized

Emblem Health and Prior authorizations for injectable drugs- updated 2019

According to EmblemHealth- effective 01/01/2019- “Magellan Health Inc will no longer provide utilization management for injectable drugs”.

Until further notice the prior authorization requests will be sent over to EmblemHealth DIRECTLY either via web: https://emblem.promptpa.com or via fax: 877-243-4812 or via phone: 888-447-0295