The Connection OnlineSM

June 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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Save time, money and paper—use electronic transactions

If you are not submitting claims and attachments electronically and receiving payments and vouchers electronically, we strongly urge you to consider doing so.

  • Electronic claims are processed more quickly.
  • Electronic attachments eliminate lost documents and reduce the number of requests sent for the same information.
  • Electronic vouchers and funds transfer allow you to receive your payment sooner and have it posted automatically to your accounts.

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Promote your practice as an emergency room alternative in less than five minutes

You may be an emergency room (ER) alternative, if you:

  • Allow for walk-in patients
  • Are able to perform a list of urgent services
  • Have extended weekday and/or weekend hours

Members can now quickly view which providers are ER alternatives when searching on myRegence.com. The Provider Search feature automatically highlights clinics contracted with us as urgent care centers or retail clinics.

If you offer walk-in clinic care but do not have a specialty of either urgent care center or retail clinic, you can secure the same level of prominence on the Provider Search feature in less than five minutes by updating your profile.

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News and Updates

  • View all of our recent updates in the What's New section of our website.

 

Administrative and Billing

 

Dental

 

Products and Programs

 

Health Care Reform

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

Reimbursement