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Provider Alert!
01Jun

Provider Alert! You’re Invited to Our Provider Advisory Group!

Date: June 1, 2023 Attention: All Providers Event dates for the upcoming sessions are based on Service Delivery Area: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 Northeast SDAThursday, June 15, 2023 Jefferson SDATuesday, June 20, 2023 Harris SDAAll sessions will be from 6:00 – 7:30PM CST Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) invites you to join our quarterly Provider Advisory Group (PAG). We will hold our next round of sessions later this month and dates are based on Service Delivery Area (SDA) as described above....

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Provider Alert!
01Jun

Provider Alert! HHSC to Implement Gattex® Clinical Prior Authorization on June 6, 2023

Date: May 31, 2023 Attention: All Providers Effective Date: June 6, 2023 Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to let providers know that effective June 6, 2023, Texas Health and Human Services (HHSC) will be implementing the Gattex® clinical prior authorization criteria, which was approved on April 28, 2023. How this impacts providers: Starting June 6, 2023, TCHP will implement the Gattex® clinical prior authorization criteria. The new criteria is available on the HHSC Vendor Drug Program website and can...

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Provider Alert!
24May

Provider Alert! Clinical Criteria Revision for Evkeeza® effective June 1, 2023

Date: May 18, 2023 Attention: All Providers Effective Date: June 1, 2023 Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to let providers know that effective June 1, 2023, Texas Health and Human Services (HHSC) will expand coverage for Evkeeza® (procedure code J1305) to adolescents 5 years of age and older due to a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Evkeeza® is an injectable prescription medicine used along with other low-density lipoprotein (LDL) lowering medicines in treating high cholesterol...

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16May

Provider Alert! COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Procedure Code 0174A Is Now a Benefit of Medicaid and CHIP

Date: May 16, 2023 Attention: All Providers Effective date: Dates of service on or after March 14, 2023 Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to inform providers that effective for dates of service on or after March 14, 2023, in accordance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s amended Emergency Use Authorizations, COVID-19 vaccine administration procedure code 0174A for the administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine booster is now a benefit of Texas Medicaid and CHIP for individuals 6...

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16May

Provider Alert! Infection Control Supplies Procedure Code S8301 No Longer a Benefit

Date: May 16, 2023 Attention: All Providers Effective Date: May 12, 2023 Call to action: Texas Children Health Plan (TCHP) would like to inform providers that effective with the end of the federal public health emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023, the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) will end multiple temporary flexibilities related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Providers should be aware that this change impacts coverage and reimbursement for procedure code S8301for infection control supplies. Effective for dates of service on or after May...

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15May

Provider Alert! End of COVID flexibilities: Provider Signatures for All Therapy Services and Hearing Screening for Speech Therapy

Date: May 15, 2023 Attention: All Providers Effective date: June 13, 2023 Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to make providers aware of the end to some COVID flexibilities related to Utilization Management.  Background information: The Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) received notice that the COVID-19 federal public health emergency (PHE) declared on January 31, 2020, will end on May 11, 2023. In response to the PHE, TCHP implemented additional flexibilities during this time that will come to an...

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Provider Alert!
11May

Provider Alert! New EVV Vendor System HHAeXchange Launching October 1, 2023

Date: May 11, 2023 Attention: All Providers Effective Date: October 1, 2023 Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to inform providers that a new single state funded Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) vendor system, HHAeXchange, is launching October 1, 2023. On April 26, 2022, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) posted a solicitation for EVV System Management Services. Through a competitive selection process, HHSC has selected Accenture State Healthcare Services LLC. How this impacts providers: Accenture will continue to be known...

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Provider Alert!
11May

Provider Alert! Inactive National Provider Identifiers in National Plan and Provider Enumeration System to Trigger Disenrollment Action

Date: May 10, 2023 Attention: All Providers Effective date: April 27, 2023 Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to make providers aware that Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) has identified several National Provider Identifiers (NPI) as inactive in the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) and will be taking immediate disenrollment action which will result in a payment denial code (PDC) 64 added on to the provider record in the Master Provider File (MPF). Provider Requirements, verification and...

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Provider Alert!
11May

Provider Alert! Implementation of Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) Agents Clinical Prior Authorization for Fee for Service Scheduled for April 11

Date: May 10, 2023 Attention: Providers Effective Date: April 11, 2023 Call to action: Effective April 11, 2023 Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) added Takhzyro generic code (GCN) 39478 to the drugs requiring Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) clinical prior authorization for clients enrolled in Medicaid Fee-For-Service. How this impacts providers: Prescribers will now have to submit a prior authorization for Takhzyro® for their Medicaid fee-for-service population. Next steps for providers: Prescribers should share this communication with their staff. Provider must submit documentation (such as...

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09May

Provider Alert! HHSC to End Telephone (Audio-only) Medical Services COVID-19 Guidance and Issue Temporary Guidance for Certain Audio-Only Services

Date: May 8, 2023 Attention: All Providers Effective date: May 12, 2023 Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to inform providers that effective May 11, 2023, Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) will end the temporary flexibility that has been allowed for telephone (audio-only) medical (physician-delivered) E/M services. HHSC authorized providers to bill procedure codes 99201-99205 and 99211-99215 to receive reimbursement for telephone (audio-only) medical (physician-delivered) E/M services delivered from March 20, 2020, through May 11, 2023. Billing information: Providers should...

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