CommercialMay 31, 2023
Digital notifications are coming June 1, 2023
Use your Attachments Dashboard in Availity Essentials* to access notifications about documents needed to process your claim.
Beginning June 1, 2023, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Anthem) will notify you through your Attachments Dashboard when we need medical records, itemized bills, or other documents required to process our Commercial member claims. You will no longer receive a paper letter or remittance advice when we need documents to process most claims.
When your organization registered to use the Medical Attachments application through Availity Essentials, you also registered to receive digital notifications through that application. This makes it possible for Anthem to notify you digitally when we need documents to process your claim.
Enabling more efficient processes
Each morning, you will receive Digital RFAI notifications in your Attachments Dashboard Inbox for claims we are unable to process because we need supporting documentation.
How to prepare to receive digital notifications:
- Check your Medical Attachments application registration:
- If you are already registered to use the Medical Attachments application, make sure all your billing NPIs are correctly registered.
- Ask your Availity administrator to verify your registration.
- Use the self-service learning module to help your Availity administrator check your registration.
- Check your staff’s security:
- All team members needing access to attachment information should have these role assignments:
- Claims Status
- Medical Attachments
- Ask your Availity administrator to confirm all the role assignments are correctly applied to the right team members. They need to have access to the organization ID (customer ID) for which the billing NPIs are registered.
- Use the self-service learning module to help your Availity administrator check your team members role assignments.
- All team members needing access to attachment information should have these role assignments:
Help, training, and support
In collaboration with Availity, we’ve developed training for your organization’s administrators about how to update the Medical Attachment registration:
Date | Start time |
June 6, 2023 | 2:30 p.m. Eastern time |
June 8, 2023 | 2:30 p.m. Eastern time |
July 19, 2023 | 3:30 p.m. Eastern time |
July 25, 2023 | 2:30 p.m. Eastern time |
Availity administrators can use this link to register for live training or to view the live training.
For associates who are responsible for sending attachments, we’ve developed an enhanced training session that walks through the Attachments Dashboard and many of the unique features that make it most efficient:
Date | Start time |
June 26, 2023 | 1 p.m. Eastern time |
June 29, 2023 | 2:30 p.m. Eastern time |
July 26, 2023 | 3 p.m. Eastern time |
July 27, 2023 | 2 p.m. Eastern time |
Availity users with the Medical Attachments and Claims Status role assignment can use this link to register for live training or to view the live training.
Through this efficient process, we are receiving needed support documentation 50% faster than through the outdated method of mailing letters and receiving attachments through non-digital methods.1 If you are using the PWK process to submit attachments, you may still receive Digital RFAI notifications in your dashboard, if:
- You didn’t send us the correct document.
- We need additional documents.
- The PWK attachment wasn’t received within seven days.
Resources available
Use these helpful resources for information that can help for a smooth transition to Digital RFAI notifications:
For additional resources, call Availity Client Services at 800-282-4548.
1 Source: Internal Digital RFAI provider satisfaction survey
* Availity, LLC is an independent company providing administrative support services on behalf of the health plan.
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PUBLICATIONS: June 2023 Provider Newsletter
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