Webinars for physicians, coders focus on documentation, coding

In 2025, we’ll continue to offer webinars about documentation and coding of common challenging diagnoses. These live, lunchtime educational sessions will also include an opportunity to ask questions.

Below is our schedule and topics for the sessions. All sessions start at noon Eastern time and should last for 30 minutes. Register for the sessions on the provider training website.

Provider training website access

If you have an Availity Essentials™ account you can access the provider training website by:

1. Logging in to the provider portal at availity.com.**
2. Clicking on Payer Spaces on the menu bar and then clicking on the BCBSM and BCN logo.
3. Under Applications, clicking on the Provider Training Site tile.
4. Clicking on Submit on the Select an Organization page.

Existing users who used the same email address as their provider portal profile email will be directed to the training site. If you used a different email address, contact ProviderTraining@bcbsm.com to update your profile.

You can also directly access the training website if you don’t have a provider portal account.

After logging in to the provider training website, look in Event Calendar to sign up for your desired session. You can also quickly search for all the sessions with the keyword “lunchtime” and then look under the results for Events.

You can listen to the previously recorded sessions, too. Check out the following:

Questions?

• For more information about the sessions, contact April Boyce at aboyce@bcbsm.com.
• For more information about registration or using the provider training website, contact the provider training team at ProviderTraining@bcbsm.com.
• For more information on accessing the provider training website through the provider portal see the “Access our training site from our provider portal; new learning path available” article in the December 2023 Record.

**Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan doesn’t own or control this website.

Availity^® is an independent company that contracts with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network to offer provider portal and electronic data interchange services.