August 15, 2008 RelayHealth is enhancing software

I wanted to let medical billing offices who use RelayHealth know that on August 15th 2008 they will be rolling out a new release of their software. This release is for the back end and should not be noticed by front end users however; if your practice management software or the software you use to connect with RelayHealth didn't update their software you may have "glitches".

Starting in July RelayHealth has been notifying companies that interface with them about the new enhancements and have offered web-based guidelines along with many reminder notices about the update.

As of August 15th 2008 those clients who have not updated their software for these changes may have connectivity issues or in other words your claims will not be able to transmit to RelayHealth.

The benefits for this enhancement are:

• Faster Connection
• Mor Stability when transmitting files
• Enhanced Disaster Recovery
• Future expansion capabilities
• Decreased outages due to Internet Service Provider (ISP) issues
• Enhanced Performance
• Smoother transitions during future Web address changes

If you find you are having problems transmitting claims on or after August 15th call your software vendor immediately.

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EMC Enrollment Required

CPID#'s 1446 Nevada Medicare and 2467 Hawaii Medicare are seeing high exclusions for EMC Enrollment Required. For client's billing to Medicare and Nevada electronically through RelayHealth you will need to complete new EDI Agreements.

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Highmark Medicare Services Website

Medicare part A claims are being routed to Highmark Medicare Services for processing for District of Columbia (DC), Maryland Medicare and Pennsylvania Medicare. For clients that are using a clearinghouse it is recommended to verify you are using the correct submitter number for electronic claims transmission.

For additional information you can visit Highmark Medicare website for additional information:
http://www.highmarkmedicareservices.com/bulletins/J12/news073108(sipp2).html

http://www.highmarkmedicareservices.com/

for clients who use RelayHealth as your clearinghouse the Submitter #'s are

CPID 1522 District of Columbia (DC) Medicare new contractor number is 12201.
CPID 5554 Maryland Medicare new contractor number is 12301
CPID 5598 Pennsylvania Medicare new contractor number is 12501
**RelayHealth will be making the change to send the new Contractor ID/Payor ID to DC, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Providers do not need to make any changes to the Contractor ID/Payor ID

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