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May 5, 2005

 

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To: All Blue Cross Contracting Providers
From: Donna Bartee, Communications Representative
Institutional Relations
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas
An Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Subject: Online Remittance Advices

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas is pleased that many institutional providers have elected to stop receiving paper remittance advices. In place of paper, these providers have opted to obtain their remittance advices from the BCBSKS Web site. A few of the many advantages for using the online remittance advice are:

  • Gets to you faster. At least a day earlier, sometimes more.
  • Multiple people can access the online RA at the same time. No longer do you have to copy the RA so each person has his or her own copy to work from.
  • The information is stored securely protecting PHI.
  • The online RA looks exactly like the paper copies.
  • If you need a copy of the RA, you can print it off or if you only need one or two pages, you can print only those.
  • You can search the online RA by any field including patient name, ID number, patient account number, etc.
  • If you need to see it better, the online screen image can be made bigger. The paper copy only comes in one size.

BCBSKS is asking every provider to turn off the paper and switch to online remittance advices. After you've switched, if there are reasons why you don't feel the online RA will work for you, BCBSKS wants to know what they are. We can't fix it if we don't know about it.

Just like our Web claim status and eligibility information, access to the online remittance advices is a "secured service" on the BCBSKS Web site. In order to use it, you must establish a provider profile. This isn't difficult but does require that the user have specific knowledge about the provider in order to gain access to this confidential information. For more information about using secured services including how to establish a provider profile, visit our Web site at http://www.bcbsks.com/CustomerService/Providers/using_secured_serv.htm.

Also, many providers have more than one provider number. For example a hospital could have a provider number for the hospital, swing bed unit, emergency room physicians, home health agency, etc. If you have multiple numbers, please be sure to shut off the paper RA for all of them.

At this time BCBSKS would like to acknowledge all of the institutional providers listed below. Thanks for using the online remittance advice.

Allen County Hospital

Iola

Anderson County Hospital

Garnett

Atchison Hospital

Atchison

Bob Wilson Memorial Grant County Hospital

Ulysses

Centralia Medical Clinic

Centralia

Center for Same Day Surgery

Wichita

Cheyenne County Hospital

Saint Francis

Cloud County Health Center

Concordia

Comanche County Hospital

Coldwater

Community Hospital

Onaga

Community Hospital Onaga HHA

Onaga

Community Hospital Onaga Swing Bed

Onaga

Community Memorial Healthcare

Marysville

Cushing Memorial Hospital

Leavenworth

Daysurgery

Wichita

Downtown Medical Clinic

Frankfort

Eastridge

Centralia

Ellsworth County Medical Center

Ellsworth

Ellsworth Medical Clinic

Ellsworth

Family Practice Associates

Holton

Family Practice Associates Hoyt Clinic

Hoyt

Goodland Regional Medical Center

Goodland

Graham County Hospital

Hill City

Greenwood County Hospital

Eureka

Grisell Memorial Hospital District #1

Ransom

Hays Medical Center

Hays

Herington Municipal Hospital

Herington

Hiawatha Community Hospital

Hiawatha

Hiawatha Community Hospital HHA

Hiawatha

Hiawatha Community Hospital Swing Bed

Hiawatha

Holton Community Hospital

Holton

Holton Community Hospital Swing Bed

Holton

Holton Family Health Clinic

Holton

Hospital District #1 Crawford County

Girard

Hospital District #1 Crawford County HHA

Girard

Hospital District #1 Rice County

Lyons

Hutchinson Hospital Corporation

Hutchinson

Hutchinson Hospital Corporation SNF

Hutchinson

Jewell County Hospital

Mankato

Kansas Surgery and Recovery

Wichita

Kearney County Hospital

Lakin

Kingman Community Hospital

Kingman

Kiowa District Hospital

Kiowa

Labette County Medical Center

Parsons

Lane County Hospital

Dighton

Lawrence Memorial Hospital

Lawrence

Lawrence Memorial Hospital SNF

Lawrence

Lindsborg Community Hospital

Lindsborg

Lucas Medical Clinic

Lucas

Manhattan Surgical Hospital

Manhattan

Maude Norton Memorial Hospital

Columbus

Mclain Satellite Clinic

Ransom

Mclain Satellite Clinic

Ness City

Memorial Hospital

Abilene

Memorial Hospital

McPherson

Memorial Hospital Swing Bed

McPherson

Minneola District Hospital

Minneola

Mitchell County Community Hospital

Beloit

Morton County Hospital

Elkhart

Nemaha Valley Community Hospital

Seneca

Newman Memorial Co. Hospital

Emporia

Newton Medical Center

Newton

Newton Medical Center Swing Bed

Newton

Norton County Hospital

Norton

Onaga Clinic

Onaga

Osborne County Memorial Hospital

Osborne

Pratt Regional Medical Center

Pratt

Providence Medical Center

Kansas City

Quivira Heights Medical Clinic

Holyrood

Rawlins County Health Center

Atwood

Rooks County Health Center

Plainville

Rush County Memorial Hospital

La Crosse

Russell Regional Hospital

Russell

Salina Regional Health Center – Partial Day

Salina

Salina Regional Health Center

Salina

Salina Regional Health Center HHA

Salina

Salina Surgical Hospital

Salina

Scott County Hospital

Scott City

Smith County Memorial Hospital

Smith Center

South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center

Arkansas City

Southwest Medical Center

Liberal

St. Catherine Hospital

Garden City

St. Francis Health Center

Topeka

St. Mary's Clinic

St. Mary's

St. John Hospital

Leavenworth

Stevens County Hospital

Hugoton

Stormont Vail Health Care

Topeka

Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital

Eldorado

Susan B. Allen Dialysis Center

Eldorado

Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital HHA

Eldorado

Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital Swing Bed

Eldorado

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital

WaKeeney

Wesley Medical Center

Wichita

Wesley Rehabilitation Hospital

Wichita

Wheatland Health Services

Neodesha

Wichita Clinic

Augusta

William Newton Memorial Hospital

Winfield

Wilson Medical Clinic

Wilson

List current as of May 4, 2005

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