PA Lookup
If you have questions about prior authorizations, please call:
Member and Recipient Service Line: 1-877-685-2415
Provider Support Service Line: 1-855-250-1539
0460 General - Pulmonary Function
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0469 Other pulmonary function
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Anesthesia for partial rib resection; not otherwise specified
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0471 Diagnostic
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Anesthesia for partial rib resection; thoracoplasty (any type)
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Anesthesia for partial rib resection; radical procedures (eg, pectus excavatum)
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0479 Other audiology
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0480 General - Cardiology
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0481 Cardiac cath lab
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0482 Stress test
Authorization Guidelines
If your request is for OUTPATIENT services, please see the Turning Point site for specific requirements. If your request is for INPATIENT services, If your request is for INPATIENT services, please submit any records and any other information that you believe support the member has met the applicable medical necessity criteria to Trillium.
Conditional Requirements
If your request is for OUTPATIENT services, please submit the request to Turning Point. If your request is for INPATIENT services, please submit the request to Trillium.
How to Submit
If your request is for OUTPATIENT services, please submit the request to Turning Point. If your request is for INPATIENT services, please submit the request to Trillium.
0483 Echocardiology
Authorization Guidelines
If your request is for OUTPATIENT services, please see the Evolent site for specific requirements. If your request is for INPATIENT services, please submit any records and any other information that you believe support the member has met the applicable medical necessity criteria to Trillium.
Conditional Requirements
If your request is for OUTPATIENT services, please submit the request to Evolent. If your request is for INPATIENT services, please submit the request to Trillium.
How to Submit
If your request is for OUTPATIENT services, please submit the request to Evolent. If your request is for INPATIENT services, please submit the request to Trillium.
0489 Other cardiology
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Sterilization Procedures
Sterilization means any medical procedure, treatment or an operation for the sole purpose of rendering an individual permanently incapable of reproducing and not related to the repair of a damaged or dysfunctional body part.
Limits
Medicaid shall not cover sterilization:
- a. when the Specific Criteria requirements have not been met; or
- b. for a permanent birth control system by bilateral occlusion of the fallopian
tubes or hysteroscopic tubal sterilization or transcervical sterilization (Essure).
Note: If a judicial court orders a sterilization procedure for a Medicaid beneficiary who is a ward of the county and mentally incompetent, the beneficiary is not eligible for sterilization procedures.
Length of Stay
Sterilization procedures are covered once in a lifetime unless documentation supports repeat due to failed procedure.
Exclusions
Medicaid shall not cover procedures for the reversal of sterilization. Sterilization reversal procedures are reverse bilateral fallopian tube trans-section by means of bilateral salpingoplasty and reversal of a bilateral vasectomy by means of a bilateral vasovasostomy. There is no EPSDT exception to the requirement that the beneficiary be at least 21 years old at the time consent is obtained.If a judicial court orders sterilization for a Medicaid beneficiary who is a ward of the county and mentally incompetent, the beneficiary is not eligible for sterilization procedures.
Additional Service Specifics
Consent is required for all voluntary sterilization. Sterilization consent must be obtained at least 30 and no more than 180 consecutive days before sterilization, except for preterm delivery or emergency abdominal surgery, when at least 72 hours must have passed since consent.
Sterilization procedures are covered once in a lifetime unless documentation supports repeat due to failed procedure.
Other Information
All providers, except ambulatory surgical centers, must append modifier FP to the procedure code when billing for sterilization procedures.
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Resources
0499 Other ambulatory surgical care
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
Anesthesia for all procedures on esophagus
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0509 Other outpatient services
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0510 General - Medication Mgmt
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0511 Chronic pain center
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0512 Dental clinic
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
0513 Psychiatric clinic
How to Submit
N/A - No authorization is required
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