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February 2025
In This Issue
► February News: Executive Summary
► Medicare Advantage Plans - Info
► Remits on Availity provider portal
► HEDIS reporting overview for 2025
► April 1: Quarterly drug fee schedule updates
► 2025 Prefix Replacement Tips
► SNF Quick Transfer Program
What you need to know
✓ Phoenix Children’s Hospital has returned to the AZ Blue provider network. For more information, visit azbluefacts.com/PCH/plans-impacted.
✓ Our 2025 Medicare Advantage plans all use the same network (Blue Advantage), and we don’t require specialist referral information on claims. Learn more and share this with your teams.
✓ New on the Availity Essentials™ provider portal: Our Remit History app is now live and easy to use. See where to find it.
✓ HEDIS and risk adjustment reporting requires data from your medical records. Check out our 2025 measurement year overview.
✓ Our quarterly drug fee updates (effective April 1) will be available for preview by March 1. Get the details.
Reminders
✓ No ID card? No worries. You can still validate eligibility. Here’s how.
✓ Be sure your teams are aware of the 2025 member ID prefix replacements. Learn how you can avoid impacts to eligibility and benefits, claims, and remits.
✓ Our Quick Transfer Program has launched! It just got easier to transfer patients from acute care hospitals to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Learn more.
Free CEUs
1. For providers who help patients make lifestyle changes: The “Essentials” course, offered by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), offers proven ways to support patients who find it hard to make lifestyle changes. When you register, use promo code ESS-BCBSAZ to get 5.5 CME/CE credits free of charge. Register Now.
2. For behavioral health providers: Check out these free continuing education courses and resources offered by the American Diabetes Association® to see how the right support can really help patients living with diabetes.
3. Grand Rounds: Join experts from the Arizona Department of Health Services on March 5 at noon to get the latest information on Avian Flu in Arizona.
We’ll hear from:
• Joel Terriquez, MD, FIDSA, CIC, Medical Director, Bureaus of Infections Disease and Immunizations
• Reshma Neupane, MPH, Epidemiology Program Manager
• Liam Hicks, MPH, Vaccine-Preventable Disease Epidemiologist
Register at Arizona Community Grand Rounds.
We’re here to help. If you have questions, feel free to contact us at 1-844-995-2583, or you can reach out to your Provider Relations Contact.
In This Issue
► February News: Executive Summary
► Medicare Advantage Plans - Info
► Remits on Availity provider portal
► HEDIS reporting overview for 2025
► April 1: Quarterly drug fee schedule updates
► 2025 Prefix Replacement Tips
► SNF Quick Transfer Program
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