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

As a reminder, 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.

Here are some important things to know:

• AIM will accept authorization requests starting Sept. 17, 2018, for dates of service on or after Oct. 1. 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. eviCore will handle all requests for dates of service prior to Oct. 1, including postservice requests.

Codes for procedures AIM will manage

Click here for a list of the procedure codes AIM will manage. You'll be able to find the list of codes on this website by the end of September.

Webinars offered in August, September and October

There's still time to sign up for training webinars to learn how to register for and use the AIM ProviderPortal^SM, an online tool used to request authorization from AIM.

Here are the webinar days and times:

• Wednesday, Aug. 22, 10-11 a.m.
• Thursday, Aug. 23, 2-3 p.m.
• Wednesday, Aug. 29, 10-11 a.m.
• Thursday, Aug. 30, 2-3 p.m.
• Wednesday, Sept. 5, 10-11 a.m.
• Thursday, Sept. 6, 2-3 p.m.
• Wednesday, Oct. 3, 10-11 a.m.

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

Posted: August 2018
Line of business: Blue Care Network