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- 25-027m Medication Formulary Changes – 1st Qtr 2025
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- 24-1350: Performant Recovery Begins DME Claim Audits February 1, 2025
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- 24-1021: State of Emergency Bridge and Airport Fires
- 24-1050m: No-Cost Accredited Provider Training to Enhance Your Skills in Suicide Prevention
- 24-926 August 2024
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- 24-629m: Extended-Days Supply Prescription
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- 24-975: State of Emergency: Land Movement in the City of Rancho Palos Verdes
- 24-986: State of Emergency: San Bernardino Fire
- 24-675m: Save the Date Summer 2024
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- 24-803: Medical Medication PA Updates
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- 24-656m Be Ready for the 2024 Provider Appointment Availability, After-Hours and Phone Surveys
- Submit HEDIS® Supplemental Data By August 1, 2024
- 24-545: Prior Authorization Extensions for All Services, Including DME, Ends June 30, 2024
- 24-475: Follow CMS Requirements for the Plan and IPAs to Notify Members of Provider Terminations
- 24-685: State of Emergency: Winter Storm Recovery Effort
- 24-549: Medicare Prior Authorization Update for CPT PLA and Cat III Codes Effective July 1, 2024
- 24-477m Medicare Prior Authorization Changes for Part B Medications
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- 24-243m: Improve Patient Satisfaction with Advanced Access
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- 24-351: New Laws Help Safeguard Privacy and Enhance Protections for Reproductive Rights
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- 24-279 The DMHC Encourages Flexibility After Cyberattack on Change Healthcare
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- 24-182: State of Emergency: Winter Storms in 13 Counties
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- 23-1153 Get Ready! D-SNP Plans are Undergoing Major Changes in 2024
- Your Role in Following the False Claims Act
- Go Online to View Updated Drug List Requiring Medicare Part B Step Therapy
- 23-1213m Annual Medical Records Collection Begins January 1, 2024
- State of Emergency in LA County Due to Interstate 10 Fire
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- 23-1149 Important Changes to D-SNP Plans in 2024
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- 23-985m: Refer Members to Access2Care™ for No-Cost, Routine Transportation Services
- 23-1058: DSNP Plans are Changing, Effective January 1, 2024
- 23-1062: Introducing the New One-Stop for All HEDIS® Tip Sheets
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- 23-631: Member Rights and Responsibilities
- Medicare Prior Authorization Change Summary: Effective October 1, 2023
- 23-1012 Go Online to View Prior Authorization Changes
- 23-988: State of Emergency: Impacts from Tropical Storm for Multiple Counties
- 23-1015: Update to State of Emergency: Impacts from Tropical Storm for Multiple Counties
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- 23-840m: Easily Exchange Clinical Information with Epic Payer Platform
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- 22-815m Get Ready for the 2023 Provider Appointment Availability, After-Hours and Phone Surveys
- 23-838: Save the Date: Annual Provider Satisfaction Survey
- 23-907: Join Us for a Webinar on 2023 Medi-Cal Risk Adjustment Model Changes
- 23-479 Asthma Medication Ratio (AMR)
- 23-645m Prioritize Bicillin® L-A to Treat Syphilis in Pregnant Persons Until Q4 2023
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- 23-421 Learn How to Improve Your HEDIS Rate for Osteoporosis Screening
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- 23-606: State of Emergency in Ventura County Due to Ongoing Winter Storm Impacts
- 23-469: Suicide Safer Care Webinar
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- 23-456: Know What Changes are Coming for Prior Authorization
- 23-491: Support Patient Care and Get Paid on Time; Adhere to Reporting and Prior Authorization Processes
- Plan All-Cause Readmissions (PCR)
- 23-129: Blood Pressure Control for Patients With Diabetes
- 23-205m Updated Guide to Improve Health Outcomes
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- 23-341: Naloxone: Saving Lives by Reversing Opioid Overdose
- 23-347: Bill Correctly to Get Paid for Primary Diagnosis and Interim Claims Submitted
- 23-298 SOE: Severe Winter Storms Impacting 9 More Counties
- 23-301: Statin Therapy for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
- 23-252: State of Emergency: Severe Winter Storms Impacting Multiple Counties
- 23-305m: Updates Made to SPC HEDIS® Tip Sheets
- 23-179m: Watch New Online Training About Clinical Care Metrics and Patient Experience
- 23-124: Eye Exam for Patients With Diabetes
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- 23-139: Kidney Health Evaluation for Patients With Diabetes
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- Claims & Payment Policy (#133): 340B Drug Payment Reduction Policy
- Annual Wellness Visit and Additional Annual Physical Coding Refresher
- Statewide State of Emergency Due to Winter Storms
- Exciting Authorization Rule Enhancements
- California State of Emergency
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- 22-804: It’s Almost Here - Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP)!
- Preventing Suicide Among Healthcare Professionals and Staff
- Emergency Department (ED) High Acuity Radiology Utilization Reimbursement Policy
- 09152020 Comprehensive Eye Exam Claim & Payment Policy (effective 10152020)
- Claims & Payment Policy (#145): Incorrect Billing for Severe Malnutrition
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- Medicare ICD-10 Transition Effective October 1, 2015
- Medicare Milliman Clinical Guidelines (MCG) Rollout
- Your Partner in Medicare Quality Care
- New Medicare ID cards for 2020
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- New Modifier Claims Edit Guideline CEG
- New Urine Drug Testing Guidelines
- New Prepay Edits: Institutional Ambulance Claims
- DOH offers resources for diagnosis/treatment of 2019-nCoV (Novel Coronavirus)
- Prior Authoirzation Requirements
- Opioid Program MAT Certification
- PBM Change Notification
- Prepayment Clinical Validations Edit Policy (Effective 10012020)
- Prior Authorization Requirements
- Provider Portal: New Enhancements
- Readmission Policy Update
- Reducing Low Value Care Screenings Claims Edit Guidelines Policy
- 3/1/2019: Revised Emergency Department (ED) Outpatient Facility Evaluation and Management (E/M) Coding Policies (Effective 10/1/2019)
- Updates to Prior Authorization Requirements: Wound Care and Skin Substitutes
- WellCare and HealthNet are joining health plans
- Provider IVR Claims Menu Redesign
- Join the CDC National Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine
- Claims and Payment Policy: Review of NOS, NEC, & Unlisted Codes
- Los Angeles County Large Scale Vaccination Events – Phase 1A and Phase 1B Tier 1
- New Somatus Care Management Program for patients with CKD/ESRD
- CPP 161: Polymerase Chain Reaction Respiratory Viral Panel Testing
- When Can Your Patients Get Their COVID-19 Vaccine?
- Fraud Alert about COVID-19
- COVID-19 Vaccine(s) Information and Health Plan Updates Training
- COVID-19 Vaccines: What You Need to Know
- CDPH COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach to Black and African American Communities
- CDPH Directs Health Care Providers to Pause Administration of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine
- County Partner to Expand Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
- Updates to COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility Requirements
- 22-033 Encourage Patients to Continue to Protect their Health During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Epocrates Point of Care Formulary Information for Providers
- 22-082 Identify, Accept and Treat Your Wellcare Patients
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- 22-022 Support for Wellcare Members Impacted by Storms
- 22-104 Controlling Blood Pressure
- 22-050 Improve Patient Experience and Quality of Care
- 22-182 Expect communications from Somatus, Inc., a specialty kidney care vendor
- 22-253 Healthcare Ready Provider Webinars
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- 22-355m Recognize and Address Mental Health Symptoms Early
- 22-297 Get Paid Faster with Playspan Webinar
- 22-348a Provider Resilience Sessions
- 22-010 Statin Therapy for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
- 22-171m Improve Your Patients’ Experience with Timely Access
- 21-850 Know How to Coordinate Your D‐SNP Patients’ Medi‐Cal Benefits
- 22-431 Offer Patients Added Treatment Options for COVID-19 with Oral Antivirals
- 22-436 Heads Up! Be Aware of Changes for Your D-SNP “Look Alike” Patients
- 22-374 Learn How to Improve Your HEDIS Rates for Transitions of Care Measure
- 22-596: Prepare for Changes to Peer-to-Peer Review Requirements
- 22-574m: Online Tip Sheets
- 22-667 Submit Claims-Related Attachments via the Availity® Portal
- 22-711 Prepare For Your Dual Eligible Patient Transition to a D-SNP and Exclusive Aligned Enrollment Plan
- 22-811 PCP Prevent Elderly Suicide Webinar
- 22-593: Strengthen Cultural Humility and Dismantle Implicit Bias in Healthcare/Social Services
- 22-773 Get Paid Faster with Payspan
- 22-562m: 2022 Provider Satisfaction Survey
- 22-796 State of Emergency Due to Fairview Fire in Riverside County
- 22-780 Strengthen Cultural Humility and Dismantle Implicit Bias in Maternal Health
- 22-688m Help Your Patients with Diabetes Adhere to Statin Therapy Treatment
- 22-731 Prior Authorization Required for Wound Care Visits Over 12
- 21-829: Learn How to Improve Your HEDIS® Rate for Breast Cancer Screening
- 22-374: Learn How to Improve Your HEDIS® Rate for Transitions of Care Measure
- 22-651: Learn How to Improve Your HEDIS® Rate for Osteoporosis Screening
- 22-164: Learn How to Improve Your HEDIS® Rate for Osteoporosis Management
- 22-287: Early treatment can lead to a 90% survival rate after five years
- 22-798 D-SNP “Look Alike” Members Are Transitioning!
- 22-857: Build an LGBTQ+ Allied and Experienced Practice
- 22-681: Provider FMC Tip Sheet
- 22-813: Avoid Payment Delays With Correct Claims Coding
- 22-864m: HEDIS® Annual Medical Records Collection Begins December 1, 2022
- 22-801: Learn More About D-SNP to Help Support Your Patients
- 22-842m: Reduce Overdoses and Save Lives With These Programs and Resources
- 22-859m: Update and Certify Provider Data in CMS’s National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES)
- 22-834: Los Angeles County: What to Know About the Monkeypox (MPX) Virus
- 22-852: What You Need to Know for Your Dual Eligible Patients
- 22-874: What to Know About the MPX Virus
- 22-976: Sign Attestation by January 31, 2023 to Exchange Patient Health Information
- 22-999: Tenet Health remains in the Wellcare network
- 23-032 Reminder to Sign Data Sharing Agreement to Exchange Patient PHI
- 23-002: The D-SNP “Look Alike” Transition to D-SNP is Now Complete
- 22-883 Keep Patients Healthy with Flu Vaccine Recommendations
- 22-845: Medicare HOS: Management of Fall Risk and Urinary Incontinence
- 22-1037: State of Emergency Due to Ongoing Effects of Route Fire in Los Angeles County
- 22-953: Submit Attestations Online for Chronically Ill Members
- 24-210: February 2024
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- 24-115m: Stay Informed With the Winter 2024 Wellcare Provider Pulse Newsletter
- 24-246: Change Healthcare Cybersecurity Incident and its Impact to Wellcare
- 24-1254: November 2024
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Last Updated On: 4/18/2024