Home Health Care

This page provides information about home health care for Blue Care Network commercial and BCN AdvantageSM members.

See the Blue Cross Home Health Care page for information specific to Blue Cross commercial and Medicare Plus BlueSM members.

BCN commercial

Blue Care Network commercial doesn’t require authorization for home health services. See the “Guidelines for transition” section in the Utilization Management chapter of the BCN Provider Manual.

BCN Advantage

Submit prior authorization requests for home health care services to CareCentrix®.

For more information about the CareCentrix home health care program, see the resources below.

Resources and forms for the CareCentrix program

Provider training for the CareCentrix program

From our dedicated provider training site,* you can access the webinar recording and a PDF of the webinar presentation.

To find the CareCentrix training, search on “home health care” and then click the Courses tab.

To request access to the provider training site:

  1. Click here to register.*
  2. Complete the registration. We recommend using the same email you use to communicate with Blue Cross for provider-related needs. This will become your login ID.
  3. Follow the link to log in.*

If you need assistance creating your login ID or navigating the site, email ProviderTraining@bcbsm.com.

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