Greetings to user group members interested in telehealth services.

There was a previous group discussion about telehealth that included concern about BCBS of MN's policy, which specifically excludes covering telehealth services provided when the recipient is in their home. This obviously is a problem because their PMAP product, Blue Plus, must be in compliance with DHS guidelines and DHS specifically states that telehealth services provided when the recipient is in their home is a covered benefit. 

So, I knew that BCBS's policy was a problem.  I tried to work with a BCBS representative, who basically hemmed and hawed, eventually acknowledged that their Blue Plus policies needed to comply with MCHP policies, but nothing changed. This took a couple of months. So,  contacted DHS last week, she requested a copy of my email discussion thread with BCBS, and a few hours after I sent this into  I had a call from a BCBS staff. . She asked a few questions and promised to get back to me "soon." The  next day I had another call from her. She was very apologetic, acknowledged that their policy was wrong, and she specifically stated that we can bill BCBS Blue Plus for telehealth services when the member receives them in the home. 

This leaves some questions about other BCBS "commercial" policies.  She said that most of their commercial products cover telehealth services but it will be necessary to check each contract to make sure that is not an exclusion for telehealth when the recipient is in their home. 

Richard Sethre, PsyD, LP

Procentive will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance window this weekend between 11 PM (CDT) Saturday, October 27 - 3 AM (CDT) Sunday, October 28.

The system may be unavailable intermittently during this maintenance period. We are only anticipating minutes of downtime but the scheduled window will last 4 hours. 

Thank you for your patience as we continue to improve our system.

I am wondering if there is any new info or ways agencies are able to start billing for professional staff being added to their agency. From what I have read we should not be having a fully licensed staff billing under another professionals license as they wait to be added as it may be fraudulent. I am wondering though how agencies deal with that?  We just waited about 6 weeks just to add a licensed staff to our agency with most insurance companies  who was already credentialed . How do agencies deal with this?

Is anyone else using a separate software to track and work denials? If so, what are you using and how do you like it?

If you are solely working denials within Procentive, are you tracking these on a spreadsheet, running a report?

Today (Thursday, 10/18/2018) at about 10:10 AM [CST] Procentive will log out all users.  This action is being taken to fix several bugs that were accidentally introduced this morning which are continuing to affect loading times. If we wait to address this your experience in Procentive will continue to decrease, we want to resolve this for you this morning. Please be aware of the following and communicate with other users within your agency in case they have not signed up for this email list:

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Thank you,

Rachael Smith

Onboarding and Implementation Team Manager

Procentive will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance window this weekend between 11PM CT on 10/20/2018 and 3AM CT on 10/21/2018. 

The system may be unavailable intermittently during this maintenance period. We are only anticipating minutes of downtime but the scheduled window will last 4 hours. 

Thank you for your patience as we continue to improve our system.

Hello,

We are currently billing out 90899 for one of our therapists for animal assisted therapy. MA has stated they DO reimburse for 90899 Animal Assisted therapy but it needs a modifier. We are unable to located one. When looking the HCPCS it only has modifiers occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech therapy. Does anyone know what modifier we could use for mental health therapy? 

THanks!