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Provider Alerts - Behavioral Health and Foster Care - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2023
BH | Prior Authorization Guidelines

Review this provider alert for BH prior authorization guidelines that apply to in-network providers only.

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Prior Authorization
  
Provider Alerts - Behavioral Health and Foster Care - Plans & Benefits - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2023
FAQ: Health and Recovery Plans (HARP) and Healthfirst’s Personal Wellness Plan (PWP)

See answers to frequently asked questions about Health and Recovery Plans and Healthfirst’s Personal Wellness Plan.

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HARP Health And Recovery Plan
  
Provider Alerts - Claims & Billing - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2023
New Prior Authorization Guidelines for Select Services

Effective Nov. 1, 2023, Healthfirst will change its authorization guidelines for select services due to newly created codes on the CMS code list. As of that date, the services requiring prior authorization will include spinal surgery services managed through OrthoNet™, as well as radiation therapy and laboratory services managed through eviCore.

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Prior Authorization
  
Provider Alerts - Coding - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2023
Invalid ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes are Expiring

Healthfirst is updating our ICD-10-CM diagnosis code set to meet the specificity requirements established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Coding
  
Provider Alerts - Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2023
Provider-Identified Overpayments

If a provider determines that Healthfirst has overpaid a claim, the provider shall, within 60 days of discovery, send a refund check made out to Healthfirst PHSP, Inc. in the amount of the overpayment. View the provider alert for details.

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Reimbursement
  
Provider Alerts - Claims & Billing - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2023
Provider Alert - Cost Sharing for Medicare Part B Drugs

Details regarding cost sharing policy changes due to the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Cost Sharing
  
Provider Alerts - Claims & Billing - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2023
Healthfirst to Manage Some Outpatient Authorization Requests Formerly Handled by OrthoNet

Effective Jan. 1, 2024, Healthfirst will resume responsibility for management of prior authorization (PA) requests for all Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapies; Podiatry Services, and Vascular Surgery. This Provider Alert will help you understand how this change might affect you...

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Prior Authorization
  
Provider Alerts - Behavioral Health and Foster Care - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2023
Behavioral Health Utilization Review Implementation

In response to a requirement by the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH), Healthfirst has implemented a new, trigger-based approach to utilization review (UR) for certain acute mental health services (MH) for all of our health plans, except for Medicare Advantage plans.

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Behavioral Health
  
Provider Alerts - Pharmacy Resources & Formularies - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2023
Obtaining Physician-Administered Drugs through a Specialty Pharmacy

As a Healthfirst provider, you can get Physician-Administered Drugs (PADs) delivered to your office at no cost through White Bagging when the medication is obtained from a Healthfirst in-network specialty pharmacy provider.

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Pharmacy
  
Provider Alerts - Claims & Billing - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2023
Medical Nutrition Therapy Added to the Article 29-I VFCA Health Facilities

In accordance with the approved Medicaid State Plan Amendment: Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) has been added to the Article 29-I VFCA Health Facilities (29-I) Other Limited Health Related Services (OLHRS) Fee Schedule. View for more details.

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Provider Alerts - Claims & Billing - Provider Resources - 2023
Pharmacist-Administered Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Now Available to Healthfirst Patients Aged 18+

New York law has expanded the types of immunizations licensed pharmacists can administer to patients 18 years or older, including the HPV vaccine.

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Vaccines
  
Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2023
Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-064 Immunopharmacologic Monitoring of Therapeutic Serum Antibodies

To manage loss of response due to the development of anti-drug antibodies, immunopharmacologic monitoring of circulating drug and anti-drug antibody levels has been proposed.

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Reimbursement Policy
  
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