For Healthcare Providers

Effective February 1, 2010, approximately 400 Nebraska and Iowa employees of Great Western Bank and Affiliates began accessing the Midlands Choice network through the Sanford Health Plan.

For 2010, there are 219 new CPT codes, 141 that have been revised and 63 that were deleted.

Priests of the Sacred Heart, a 250-employee group primarily located in Chamberlin, S.D., began accessing the network January 1, 2010.

Aetna provides convenient online tools for precertification,as well as frequent updates of clinical policy information.

Payment errors caused by mis-matches between information on claim forms and records in our database cause delays that can take two or three billing cycles to get corrected.

With a single username and password, physicians, clinicians, office managers and staff can obtain access to financial, clinical and administrative information for both Aetna and CIGNA through the NaviNet website. These services are available at no cost to providers.

AAPC has published an online tool that allows users to compare codes from the ICD-9 and ICD-10 code sets.