Provider E-News
Monthly newsletter with information about clinical practice and business updates. Newsletters are in print-friendly PDF format.
- Introducing Dr. Paul Minardi, President and CEO, Washington Permanente Medical Group
- Referrals upgrade update
- Updated online demographic and practice change forms
- CME opportunities
- How to follow up on a claim denied for no prior authorization
- Annual high dose opioid prior authorization renewals coming due for many patients
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) program enrollees cannot be billed for Medicare cost shares
- Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring
- CME opportunities
- Referrals refresh underway to support key moment in patient experience
- Access to Psychiatry Consultation
- New name for Tacoma South Medical Center and pharmacy
- Kaiser Permanente Specialty Pharmacy
- Updated provider reconsideration request form
- Re-submitting new information for a denied prior authorization drug request for non-Medicare plans
- Reminder regarding faxed radiology requests
- Are you contracted to provide services for both KP Washington and KP Northwest?
- CME opportunities - upcoming live CME courses
- Advise your Provider Services consultant of any changes
- Our HMO plan is rated #1 in Washington!
- Provider reconsideration request regarding referrals or medical necessity online form
- Changes to medical necessity review criteria for total knee replacement
- Alpha-1 proteinase inhibitors in the home infusion setting will be restricted to Kaiser Washington home infusion
- CME opportunities
- 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