{"id":980,"date":"2011-12-27T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/Provider\/?p=980"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:01:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:01:34","slug":"attention-be-healthy-providers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/attention-be-healthy-providers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Be Healthy Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Below is a message from the MA Department of Public Health\/WIC regarding a recent change to the state contract formula:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of October 1<sup>st<\/sup> Massachusetts WIC changed the state contract formula from Nestle \/Gerber Good start\/Good Start Soy to Enfamil PREMIUM Infant and Enfamil ProSobee formulas. These formulas will no longer be identified as special formulas requiring medical documentation. We have also added \/changed a few Non-Contract formulas to the WIC formulary. I have attached the MA WIC formula listing for you to share with the appropriate staff\/providers as these changes will affect the types of prior approvals that will be requested from medical providers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Many of our local programs have recently reported when the MassHealth\/WIC participant\u2019s medical provider request Gentlease or Enfamil A.R. through MassHealth\u2019s PCCP or MCO\u2019s the DME (Denmark)\/MCO has informed the MassHealth\/WIC member to go back to WIC for these formulas. Enfamil Gentlease and Enfamil A.R. are non-contract formulas on WIC and will be treated as any other special formula. The local WIC programs will continue to guide the MassHealth\/WIC participant back to the members plan to submit a prior authorization for any metabolic, or non-contract formula.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0WIC will continue to provide the 1<sup>st<\/sup> month of formula, until the prior authorization is approved.<span id=\"_marker\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a message from the MA Department of Public Health\/WIC regarding a recent change to the state contract formula: As of October 1st Massachusetts WIC changed the state contract formula from Nestle \/Gerber Good start\/Good Start Soy to Enfamil PREMIUM Infant and Enfamil ProSobee formulas. These formulas will no longer be identified as special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notice-of-changes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-fO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}