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:
- 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
Highlights include:
- Emergency Patient Resources and Options program to coordinate care
- Mourning the passing of Bernard J. Tyson
- Washington's new Balance Billing Protection Act
- South Lake Union Medical Office garners design award
- Kaiser Permanente Washington's medical financial assistance program information resources
- HOME trial team wins Birnbaum award
- Screening, testing, and treatment for expanded list of sexually transmitted infections
- HIV screening and PrEP guideline updated
- A summary of opioid prescribing edits
- Kaiser Permanente 2020 drug formularies
Highlights include:
- New President and CEO of Washington Permanente Medical Group selected
- Referrals upgrade update
- Updated online demographic and practice change forms
- The lucrative secondary market for glucose test strips
- Eliminate duplicate claims to save providers time and work
- Are you familiar with the KP Referral Management Unit?
- Primary care patients say 'it's important to ask' about suicidal thoughts
- Kaiser Permanente drug formularies
- Have you caught up on the latest Pharmacy E-News?