Provider E-News
Monthly newsletter with information about clinical practice and business updates. Newsletters are in print-friendly PDF format.
- New provider website introduced this week
- Did you know we offer a Fax Back program to submit evidence of cancer screenings?
- HEDIS® medical record review season: February-May 2019
- Upcoming changes
- Better Choices, Better Health® self-management workshops available for your Kaiser Permanente members
- Did a Kaiser Permanente member select you as their new primary care provider?
- Kaiser Permanente announces its new Gig Harbor location
- New requirements in opioid prescribing
- Medicare Part D formulary changes
- Understanding the type and scope of an authorization
- Provider directory search improvements
- Referral process improvement
- Provider reconsideration address reminder
- Avoid unnecessarily exhausting your appeal rights
- Post-service provider appeals process update
- Prior authorization to ensure safe use of chronic opioids
- Updated prior authorization grid available
- Provider directory search improvements on the way
- Kaiser Permanente's claims P.O. Box has been updated to a new address
- Updated prior authorization for Darbepoetin alfa
- CME & workshop opportunities
- Kaiser Permanente's claims P.O. Box has been updated to a new address
- Effective June 1, the criteria for infliximab (Remicade) prior authorization will be updated
- Changes to medical necessity review criteria for Kaiser Permanente implantable loop recorders
- Services incidental will now be applied to inpatient hospital stay payment policy
- Genetic testing and Kaiser Permanente's preferred relationship with Invitae
- Importance of responding to information requests
- KP Washington's Enterprise Home Infusion Therapy Service Line
- Changes to medical necessity review criteria for implantable loop recorders
- CME & workshop opportunities
- New process for collecting appointment access information
- Updated facility charges for evaluation and management services payment policy
- KP's Diabetes Prevention Program launches
- Access to KPWA patient records
- Updated 2018 quality plan available
- New quantity limit on all short-acting opioids
- ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) providers
- Referring unique services
- Pointers for provider reconsideration requests
- Kaiser Permanente occupational health available to all
- Clarification on some self-referred services
- Change in coverage for 3D mammography (breast tomosynthesis)
- Important changes in pre-authorization requirements for Kaiser Permanente Washington’s Access PPO, Elect PPO or Omni PPO plans
- Updated injectable drugs payment policy