Category: Other

Commonhealth/VA benefits

I have a CommonHealth member who was recently terminated due to not meeting the deductible.  He also has Medicare.   He has been a One Care member with Commonwealth Care Alliance since the start in 2013.  With CCA there are no deductibles and copays, so its understandable as to why it would be terminated.  He has […]

Fax Issues?

Has anyone else been experiencing fax issues to the EDMC or CPU fax # over the past two weeks? I’m trying to diagnose whether our problem is just internal or whether there’s an issue on MH’s end as well. If everything is good on your end, please let me know.

portal

Is anyone having trouble getting into the assister portal? My coworker Imelda was on it this morning with a patient, when she tied to use it again it states we are not authorized to use this site. Is their and email address that we can use to try and get help/  We have talked to […]

Mahealth Customer Service NDF issue

Spoke with HC Assister Line that had no problem finding an NDF and helped me right away.  Was told that they were unable to see what Mahealth needs and would need to call them.  Call Mahealth and Customer Service cannot find the NDF and I’m being told that because they don’t have the same system […]

patient discharge

Hi everyone, I am asking a question for a local physician’s office.  They are in the process of discharging a patient from their practice and are currently listed as the PCP on the members MassHealth Primary Care Clinician Plan. They would like to contact MassHealth to be officially removed as the PCP, has anyone ever […]

HSN Secondary with private insurance

Hi all, Happy Open Enrollment. My question is, “If a client has HSN secondary to a private insurance plan that has no deductible or co-insurance, will HSN cover the client’s medical visit co-pays?” According the Masshealth.gov, Health Safety Net for Patients, “HSN “does not pay for co-payments required by private insurance plans.”  In that case […]

FPL Contradictions

Hi, Has anyone noticed that the FPL listed in the Tax Filing Status section of the Application Summary page is different from the FPL listed on the Eligibility page?  Is this important?  I just began noticing it when a client’s income was below 100% but she was approved for CarePlus instead of MH Standard. Any […]