February 2011
Welcome to The Connection Online
This publication contains important information, including updates to policies and procedures, for physicians, dentists, other health care and dental professionals, facilities and their staff.
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News and recent updates available on our Provider Web Site
- My Medicine List helps reduce medication errors
- Receive federal incentive payments with electronic health records
View these and all of our recent updates in the What's New section of our website.
Medicare
Policies
Changes to our medical policies are listed below. Learn how policies are reviewed. Our Coding Toolkit includes codes that require clinical information (updated monthly), a complete list of code groupings and our Correct Code Editor (updated quarterly).
Medical
Medication
Learn how obsolete medication codes are reviewed on a quarterly basis.
Summaries of past changes and detailed policies are available in our Medication Policy Manual at http://blue.regence.com/policy/medication/
View our group and Individual products Preferred Medication List/Formulary.
Search the Asuris TruAdvantage + Rx and Medicare Part D formulary.