The Connection OnlineSM

October 2010

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.

Editions are published in February, April, June, August, October and December.

If you haven't already, please subscribe to receive email notifications when new editions are available.

Read other important updates in our What's New section.

Provider relations representative and provider consultant email address

You can now email your provider relations representative or provider consultant. You can also continue to reach them by phone at 1 (866) 731-1330.

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Medicare

Please review these important Medicare-related updates:

Dental

 

Administrative and Billing

 

Products and Programs

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