AIM authorization IDs now include alpha characters

In mid-April 2022, AIM Specialty Health^® began including randomly placed alpha characters in its authorization IDs. The authorization IDs with the alpha characters are now visible in any communication involving AIM Specialty Health, including those within the AIM ProviderPortal^® and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network e-referral system.

This change affects all authorizations managed by AIM Specialty Health. This includes the following services: cardiology, high-tech radiology, in-lab sleep management and radiation oncology, as well as medical oncology and supportive care drugs.

More details about the change

Here’s more information about this change:

• Before the change: The authorization IDs in the AIM ProviderPortal contained eight characters, all of which were numeric. Example: 23456789
• After the change: The authorization IDs in the AIM portal still contain eight characters, but those characters are now be a mix of alphabetic and numeric. Example: 2J6Y789M

What’s not affected by this change

This change won’t affect how determinations are made on authorization requests that AIM manages for Blue Cross commercial, Medicare Plus Blue℠, BCN commercial and BCN Advantage℠ or the claims related to them.

In addition, this change doesn’t affect authorization IDs issued before the change; those will remain the same.

AIM Specialty Health is an independent company that contracts with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network to manage authorizations for select services. 

For more information, go to our ereferrals.bcbsm.com website.