News

From our partners at Aetna Better Health:

• Provider Letter – HHV – Healthy Home Visit Program  

                         Aetna Better Health of Michigan Healthy Visit program will be reaching out to some of your patients to schedule in-home assessment with Signify Health.    

Attached are monthly updates for July 2022 from Meridian.

United Healthcare announces:

Provider Guide: Bind Benefits, Inc.
Introduction
Bind is a new product offering for self-insured employers. Bind Benefits, Inc., accesses UnitedHealthcare provider contracts, as an affiliate of UnitedHealthcare. Bind administers the first-ever on-demand health insurance product model.*
• Consumers want to know what is covered before receiving care and how much it will cost.
• Employers want to stop the increasing cost of care and their employees’, without negatively impacting quality.

Per information posted yesterday from Meridian, there is a vital change, effective immediately.  Optum has a revised mailing address, as well as emails and fax numbers.   Please see the attachement for all of the significant details,

In addition, another change is to Member Services Fax number, effective May 1, 2022.

Dear Medical Care Group and Physician Organization Business Administrator,

This article is a repeat of information from Humana on resources that will allow offices to find out answers to their questions:

From Humana:

Attached  are some resources that help with understanding Humana’s home health determinations. There is a brief webinar offered in the Making It Easier series for Home Health billing (link below).

From Meridian:  Below is the MDHHS Bulletin to provide information on Homecare Services; NPs or PAs can no longer order for Homecare Services.  Only a physician can place these orders effective January 1, 2022.

Why Implicit Bias training?  Effective June 1, 2022, LARA announced the adoption of new rules that require Implicit Bias Training for all medical licenses and renewals. 

Priority Health has provided their Spring 2022 Physican and Practice Newsletter; please read the full detail in the attachment

From Priority Health:

Please see your April 2022 Collateral  from United Healthcare, and if you have not signed up for their Network Bulletin to be sent to you on a monthly basis please visit www.uhcprovider.com to sign up.

Humana has provided the latest provider manual and links to their resources for your office use.

From Aetna Better Health - the March 22 Monthly Informational handouts:

• Provider Bulletin No 202: Aetna Better Health of MI Member Support in Pandemic

• Provider Bulletin No 203:  New Transportation Provider – Access2Care – effective 4.1.2022

Attached is the quarterly compliance newletter from Aetna.

To our offices from Aetna Better Health:

Attached are the February 2022 monthly updates on the following topics:

• Provider Bulletin No 199: Prior Auth Update Ordering Practitioner

• Provider Bulletin No 200:   ABH Shutdown Retraction - Sunset of the ABH Medicaid Web Portal is being delayed at this time.