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May 2023

We made some questionnaire changes in e-referral system

On March 26 and April 9, 2023, we added, updated and removed questionnaires in the e-referral system. We also made changes in the corresponding preview questionnaires on the ereferrals.bcbsm.com website.

As a reminder, we use our authorization criteria, our medical policies and your answers to the questionnaires in the e-referral system when making utilization management determinations on your authorization requests.

New questionnaire

On March 26, we added a Breast reduction questionnaire that’s specific to BCN Advantage℠ members. This questionnaire will open for adolescent and adult BCN Advantage members for procedure code *19318.

Updated questionnaires

We updated the following questionnaires on the date specified below:


Questionnaire

Opens for

Updates

Release date

Breast reduction

BCN commercial

No longer opens for BCN Advantage members. This questionnaire continues to open for procedure code *19318 for BCN commercial members.
As noted above, a separate questionnaire opens for BCN Advantage members.

March 26

Dental general anesthesia or repair of trauma to natural teeth

  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of a question.

April 9

Endovascular intervention, peripheral artery

  • Medicare Plus Blue℠
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of a question

March 26

Hammertoe correction surgery

  • Medicare Plus Blue
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of some questions

April 9

Prostatic urethral lift

  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage
  • Updated the wording of a question
  • Removed a question

March 26

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA), cardiac atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter

  • Medicare Plus Blue
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of a question

April 9

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA), cardiac frequent monomorphic premature ventricular contractions

  • Medicare Plus Blue
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of some questions

April 9

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA), cardiac nonsustained ventricular tachycardia

  • Medicare Plus Blue
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of some questions

April 9

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA), cardiac suspected AVNRT, AVRT or focal atrial tachycardia

  • Medicare Plus Blue
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of some questions

April 9

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA), cardiac sustained (more than 30 seconds) ventricular tachycardia

  • Medicare Plus Blue
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of some questions

April 9

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA), cardiac treatment for preexcitation syndrome or WPW syndrome

  • Medicare Plus Blue
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of some questions

April 9

Responsive neurostimulator/deep brain stimulation trigger questionnaire

  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

No longer opens for procedure code *61868

March 26

Responsive neurostimulation for the treatment of refractory partial epilepsy

  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

No longer opens for procedure code *61868

March 26

Thyroidectomy, partial

  • Medicare Plus Blue
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of some questions

April 9

Thyroidectomy, total

  • Medicare Plus Blue
  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage

Updated the wording of a question

April 9

Varicose vein treatment

  • BCN commercial
  • BCN Advantage
  • Opens for procedure code *37799
  • Updated the wording of some questions

March 26

Removed questionnaire

On March 26, we removed the Blepharoplasty, lower lid questionnaire. Although this service continues to require prior authorization for Medicare Plus Blue, BCN commercial and BCN Advantage members, the questionnaire no longer opens.

Preview questionnaires

Preview questionnaires show the questions you’ll need to answer so you can prepare your answers ahead of time. To access them, go to ereferrals.bcbsm.com and follow instructions below:

  • For BCN: Click on BCN and then click on Authorization Requirements & Criteria. Scroll down and look under the Authorization criteria and preview questionnaires heading.
  • For Medicare Plus Blue: Click on Blue Cross and then click on Authorization Requirements & Criteria. Scroll down and look under the Authorization criteria and preview questionnaires – Medicare Plus Blue heading.

Authorization criteria and medical policies

The pertinent authorization criteria and medical policies are also available on the Authorization Requirements & Criteria pages.

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