The following policies were recently reviewed for annual update. The full texts of these policies are available in the Provider section of bcbsri.com:

• Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Level of Care
• Behavioral Health Outpatient Professional Services
• Measurement of Ocular Blood Flow for Glaucoma
• Optical Coherence Tomography of the Anterior Eye Segment
• Phototherapeutic Keratectomy
• Prior Authorization via Web-Based Tool for Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
• Provider Guidelines for Requesting Point of Service Payment and Maintaining Patient Credit Card Information
• Scanning Computerized Ophthalmic Diagnostic Imaging
• Vertebral Axial Decompression
• Ultrasonographic Measurement of Carotid Intima-Medial Thickness as an Assessment of Subclinical Artherosclerosis

We also post monthly drafts of medical policies being created or reassessed for your review. As a reminder, you can provide comments on draft policies for up to 30 days. Draft policies are located on the Provider homepage, under the Medical Policies section, under the drop-down “Draft Medical Policies.”