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