Please review the update from Healthy Blue Medicaid regarding the rate changes and claim payment disputes.
Healthy Blue would like to provide you with information regarding the professional fee schedule rate updates that were effective 7/1/22. Although state bulletins were recently published with increased rates that were retro-effective 7/1/22, please note that the updates were still pending CMS approval. As a health plan, Healthy Blue could not implement the rate increases without CMS approval, which is why claims have continued to pay the old rates.
CMS has since approved the rates, and the approved fee schedules were published on the state’s site on 10/31/22. Currently, Healthy Blue is diligently working on auditing the updated fee schedules and loading them into our claims processing system. Once this is complete, Healthy Blue will reprocess incorrectly paid claims from 7/1/22 to pay the updated rates. Please discontinue submitting claim payment disputes regarding the updated rates as Healthy Blue will be reprocessing all incorrectly paid claims upon system update.