As Health New England works with our network of providers to improve the health and lives of our members, we have made changes to requirements on the Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor through Northwood, our durable medical equipment benefit manager.<\/p>\n
Effective 1\/8\/2021<\/strong><\/em>, the Medical Necessity Determinations on Automatic blood pressure monitor (A4670) for Commercial and Medicaid ACO was removed. Northwood will limit one per calendar year with claim submission. Medicare (CMS) does not cover Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor. However, our members who require this device can obtain one through their Over-the-Counter Benefit ($40\/quarter).<\/p>\n For any questions, please do not hesitate to call your Provider Relations Representative at (800) 842-4464, extension 5000. You may also send an email to providerrelations@hne.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Health New England works with our network of providers to improve the health and lives of our members, we have made changes to requirements on the Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor through Northwood, our durable medical equipment benefit manager. Effective 1\/8\/2021, the Medical Necessity Determinations on Automatic blood pressure monitor (A4670) for Commercial and Medicaid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provider-newsletter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NorthwoodLogo.jpg?fit=1110%2C228","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-1DB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6300,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}