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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan and Hoosier Care Connect Availity Portal training how to start and complete an appeal Appeals 2019

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana

Plan and Hoosier Care Connect

Availity Portal training —how to start and complete an appeal

Appeals 2019

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Important information

Important!

It is a violation of HIPAA regulations to share credentials to a system that contains

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)/Personal Health Information (PHI). Please do

not share an Availity user ID with others.

Information exchange and access

When you use the Availity Portal, results and data come from payer systems.

Results can vary by payer, plan, product, member and user permissions.

Compliance

In training, screen images and demonstrations are from a demo environment

containing preloaded generic, de-identified information.

Access

Your organization’s Availity administrator sets up your user ID and assigns

permissions.

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Important information (cont.)

Internet browser

Availity supports Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox®, and Internet Explorer 11® or

newer. Be sure to allow pop-ups from Availity and clear your temporary internet

files often.

Allow pop-up windows:

• [apps.availity.com ]

• [https://www.availity.com]

• [https://availitylearning.learnupon.com]

• Any third-party websites accessed from the Availity Portal such as a payer's

website

Note: Also allow JavaScript and allow images to load automatically.

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana

Plan and Hoosier Care Connect

Let’s dispute a claim and then, we’ll access the appeals worklist.

Availity appeals

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Appeals definition

A dispute begins when a provider is dissatisfied with a

payer’s decision on a claim. The first step is to submit

a reconsideration. The second step is to submit an

claim payment appeal.

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Do you have all the permissions you need?

To use the Appeals application, your organization’s Availity administrator

must assign the Claim Status role to your user account.

Contact your administrator(s) to get more or different permissions.

Highlights and insights

In My Account Dashboard, click My Administrators to find administrators

for your business. Be sure to allow pop-ups from Availity sites.

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana

Plan and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Demonstration (cont.)

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Request another review

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Request another review

(cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Request another review

(cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Request another review

(cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Filter disputes

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Filter disputes (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Filter disputes (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Filter disputes (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Filter disputes (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Filter disputes (cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Help & Training

Select Help & Training and then

select an option:

• Find Help

• Get Trained

• Search Knowledge

• My Support Tickets

• My Learning Plan

• View Network Outages

New to Availity? Select [Help &

Training > My Learning Plan] to

plot a custom learning journey.

Check out onboarding programs for

new administrators and new users.

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

My Account page

My Account page is all about the

user and the organization. Use it to:

• Change the avatar.

• Update user information.

• Find organization administrator

information.

• Manage support tickets.

• Set up a learning plan.

• Check claim status

• Follow up.

Organization administrators can

also manage business and team

information.

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Secure provider message through the

Availity New Claim Status application

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Secure provider message through the

Availity New Claim Status application

(cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Secure provider message through the

Availity New Claim Status application

(cont.)

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

FAQ

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

FAQ

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Resources

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Contact information

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Thank you

www.anthem.com/inmedicaiddocAnthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is the trade name of Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc., independent licensee of

the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Anthem is a registered trademark of Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc.

Providers who are contracted with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield to serve Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana

Plan and Hoosier Care Connect through an accountable care organization (ACO), participating medical group (PMG) or

Independent Physician Association (IPA) are to follow guidelines and practices of the group. This includes but is not

limited to authorization, covered benefits and services, and claims submittal. If you have questions, please contact your

group administrator or your Anthem network representative.

AINPEC-2314-19 [September 2019]

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Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Session Survey - Tuesday

Please use the QR code or the weblink below to complete a survey

about the session you just attended. Each session has a unique

survey so be sure to complete the appropriate one for each

session you attend. We will be taking your feedback from this

survey to improve future IHCP events.

https://tinyurl.com/fssa1085

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Session Survey - Wednesday

Please use the QR code or the weblink below to complete a survey

about the session you just attended. Each session has a unique

survey so be sure to complete the appropriate one for each

session you attend. We will be taking your feedback from this

survey to improve future IHCP events.

https://tinyurl.com/fssa1086

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Serving Hoosier Healthwise, Healthy Indiana Plan

and Hoosier Care Connect

Session Survey - Thursday

Please use the QR code or the weblink below to complete a survey

about the session you just attended. Each session has a unique

survey so be sure to complete the appropriate one for each

session you attend. We will be taking your feedback from this

survey to improve future IHCP events.

https://tinyurl.com/fssa1037