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What is 45 days?
A Federal External Review standard time frame.
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What is a verbal determination?
The member and authorized representative receive this for all expedited external appeals.
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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.
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What is a Preliminary Review?
This type of review determines eligibility of a request for external review.
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Where is Clinical Preparation?
Questions and specialties are chosen here.
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What is a Preliminary Review?
This eligibility review service must be completed within three business days for most clients.
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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.
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What is three years?
Any reviewer must have at least this many years of current clinical experience to join our panel.
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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.
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Where is Awaiting Scheduling or Scheduling?
This is where you would generate a report template
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What is additional information?
This must be sent to the health plan and reviewer, if applicable, within one business day of receipt.
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What is three attempts?
Peer to peer calls require this many attempts, on different days and at different times.
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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.
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What is a Preauthorization or Utilization Review?
The determination for this level of review will be either Approve or Deny.
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Where is Finalize Report?
You deliver your final product when your case lands in this bucket.
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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.
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Who are Colorado and Oregon?
The member, authorized representative and health plan receive an index of materials letter for these state departments of insurance.
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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.
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What is a Federal External Review?
The IRO drives the entire process for this level of review.
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Where is Awaiting Meds?
An Index of Materials Letter is created in this bucket.
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What is a formulary exception?
This service has an expedited time frame of 24 hours.
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What is the Final Determination Notice?
Upon finalization of a federal external review, this gets issued alongside the final report.
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What is re-credentialing?
An MMRO Reviewer goes through this process every 3 years.
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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.
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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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