Provider Update
This quarterly newsletter reports on business and clinical news, including a summary of clinical updates, continuing education opportunities, and drug formulary updates. Newsletters are available online for one year.
Highlights include:
- Introducing new networks, plans, and initiatives for 2021
- New VerifyHCP® clinician directory verification panel
- Changes to our Women's Health payment policy
- COVID-19 Household Prevention program resources available to our members
- Recent letters to providers
- New and updated payment policies
- Tips on how to navigate the prescription drugs prior authorization process
- Acupuncture Medicare benefit for chronic low back pain
- Updated ASCVD prevention guidelines
- 2021 summary of opioid prescribing edits
- Kaiser Permanente 2021 drug formularies
Highlights include:
- Authorization upgrade launches
- Updates for the 2020-21 flu season
- Cardiology care updates for Spokane
- New and updated payment policies
- Kaiser Permanente walk-in pharmacy opens in Bellingham
- Digital breast tomosynthesis improves cancer detection and reduces recalls for most women
- Tobacco and nicotine cessation guideline updated
- New monitoring requirements for chronic opioid therapy
- Colorectal cancer screening guideline updated
- Acute opioid prescribing updates
- Kaiser Permanente 2020 drug formularies
Highlights include:
- An important message from Greg Adams, Chairman and CEO
- New referrals and authorization improvement launch date
- Tips on how to navigate the prescription drugs prior authorization process
- Ways to contact the Pharmacy Drug Benefit Help Desk
- Language services and accessibility requirements
- New chronic obstructive pulmonary disease guideline available
- Chronic opioid therapy safety guideline updated
- Kaiser Permanente 2020 drug formularies
Highlights include:
- New provider site tools launching this spring
- Kaiser Permanente Washington awards and recognition
- Approval and denial authorization notification methods
- Kaiser Permanente opens new medical center in Smokey Point
- Kaiser Permanente expands nutrition counseling services
- Why should your patients use mail order for their prescriptions from a Kaiser Permanente pharmacy?
- 2020 drug formularies