Starting Oct. 1, AIM Specialty Health^® to manage cardiology and high-tech radiology services for Blue Care Network

For dates of service on or after Oct. 1, 2018, AIM Specialty Health will manage the authorization process for cardiology and high-tech radiology procedures for BCN HMO^SM (commercial) and BCN Advantage^SM members. We first communicated about this in the article AIM Specialty Health to manage cardiology and high-tech radiology procedures for BCN starting October 1 in the July-August 2018 issue of BCN Provider News, on page 33.

AIM will accept authorization requests starting Sept. 17, 2018. You can submit these requests either through the AIM provider portal or by calling AIM at 1-844-377-1278.

For dates of service prior to Oct. 1, continue to submit your authorization requests to eviCore healthcare.

Webinars offered in August, September and October

We've scheduled training webinars so you can learn how to register for and use the AIM ProviderPortal^SM, an online tool used to request authorization from AIM.

For the training dates and the instructions on how to register, refer to the article in BCN Provider News.

Codes for procedures AIM will manage

Click here for a list of the procedure codes AIM will manage. The list shows the following categories of procedures:

• Category 1: Procedures that require authorization by eviCore healthcare for dates of service through Sept. 30, 2018, and will continue to require authorization by AIM for dates of service on or after Oct. 1, 2018


• Category 2: Procedures that require authorization by eviCore healthcare for dates of service through Sept. 30, 2018, but will not require authorization by AIM for dates of service on or after Oct. 1, 2018


• Category 3: A few procedures that require authorization by eviCore healthcare for dates of service through Sept. 30, 2018, will require authorization by BCN for dates of service on or after Oct. 1, 2018. Submit authorization requests for these procedures directly to BCN through the e-referral system. Don't submit them to AIM.


• Category 4: Procedures that do not require authorization by eviCore healthcare for dates of service through Sept. 30, 2018, but will require authorization by AIM for dates of service on or after Oct. 1, 2018

You'll be able to find the list of codes on our ereferrals.bcbsm.com website by the end of September.

Posted: July 2018
Line of business: Blue Care Network