External Review Timeframes Communications Scheduling/Credentialing Service Types W5 Sections
100
What is 45 days?
A Federal External Review standard time frame.
100
What is a verbal determination?
The member and authorized representative receive this for all expedited external appeals.
100
What are licensure and credentials?
All Independent Reviewers are required to maintain these during their tenure with MMRO, including meeting the continuing education requirements, if required.
100
What is a Preliminary Review?
This type of review determines eligibility of a request for external review.
100
Where is Clinical Preparation?
Questions and specialties are chosen here.
200
What is a Preliminary Review?
This eligibility review service must be completed within three business days for most clients.
200
What are external reviews?
The client/health plan is the only party to receive the report for all types of reviews except for this one.
200
What is three years?
Any reviewer must have at least this many years of current clinical experience to join our panel.
200
What is an External Appeal?
This is the only level of service where there will be contact with the member and authorized representative, if applicable.
200
Where is Awaiting Scheduling or Scheduling?
This is where you would generate a report template
300
What is additional information?
This must be sent to the health plan and reviewer, if applicable, within one business day of receipt.
300
What is three attempts?
Peer to peer calls require this many attempts, on different days and at different times.
300
What are COI and Credentials, Knowledge, and Experience Attestations?
If these aren't a part of your report template, they must be sent separately to the reviewer for signature for every case review.
300
What is a Preauthorization or Utilization Review?
The determination for this level of review will be either Approve or Deny.
300
Where is Finalize Report?
You deliver your final product when your case lands in this bucket.
400
What is an Acceptance Letter?
This initial correspondence notifying the member that MMRO has been assigned to their case must be sent out within one business day.
400
Who are Colorado and Oregon?
The member, authorized representative and health plan receive an index of materials letter for these state departments of insurance.
400
Who is Iowa?
This state department of insurance requires that any physician conducting a review through them must be credentialing by them prior to sending the case.
400
What is a Federal External Review?
The IRO drives the entire process for this level of review.
400
Where is Awaiting Meds?
An Index of Materials Letter is created in this bucket.
500
What is a formulary exception?
This service has an expedited time frame of 24 hours.
500
What is the Final Determination Notice?
Upon finalization of a federal external review, this gets issued alongside the final report.
500
What is re-credentialing?
An MMRO Reviewer goes through this process every 3 years.
500
What is a Quality of Care Review?
This type of service is initiated by a client in order to evaluate the performance of an attending physician.
500
Where is Awaiting Provider Review?
If you are waiting on a reviewer's approval of edits, look for your case here.






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