CHPW BHSO information
This page contains useful information about how we provide health care coverage and your rights as a CHPW Behavioral Health Services Only (BHSO) member. Items followed by an asterisk (*) mean that information can be found in your Member Handbook.
For more details or paper copies of any of these items, contact Customer Service at 1-800-440-1561 (TTY Relay: 711), Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Getting started
- How to get language assistance and if you need information in a different language or format
- The availability of TTY services for members
Getting care
- How to get specialty care, behavioral health services, and hospital services*
- How access medical advice help lines 24 hours a day, seven days a week*
- How to get care after normal office hours*
- How to access emergency care and emergency rooms, including our policy on when to directly access emergency care or use 911 services*
- How to get care and coverage when you are out of our service areas*
- How children under 21 years of age may get Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment services that include regular checkups and medically necessary follow-up treatment*
Benefits and coverage
- Benefits and services included in, and excluded from, coverage*
- How we evaluate new technology to include as a covered benefit*
- Copayments and other charges for which you are responsible*
- How you may submit a claim for covered services, if applicable*
- Restrictions on benefits that apply to services obtained outside our service areas*
Special programs
- Our Quality Improvement Program, including goals, processes, and outcomes in terms of care and service
- Our Care Management Program and how you and your caregiver may self-refer to the program
Utilization Management (our process of reviewing whether care is medically necessary and appropriate)
- The toll-free number to call (1-800-440-1561; TTY dial 711) when you have questions about Utilization Management (UM) issues, such as authorization dates or questions about denials*
- Our policy prohibiting financial incentives for UM decision-makers:
- UM decision-making is based only on appropriateness of care and service and existence of coverage.
- The organization does not specifically reward practitioners or other individuals for issuing denials of coverage.
- Financial incentives for UM decision-makers do not encourage decisions that result in underutilization.
- A description of the availability of an independent external appeals process for UM decisions made by Community Health Plan of Washington
Your rights and privacy
- Our Member Rights and Responsibilities statement
- How a member may complete an advance directive. An advance directive puts a member’s health care choices into writing and may name someone to speak for the member, if he or she is unable to speak. Advanced directives may include a Health Care Directive, Living Will, or a Durable Power of Attorney
- How to submit a complaint*
- How to appeal a decision that adversely affects coverage, benefits, or your relationship with us*
- Our notice of privacy practices and confidentiality policies including:
- How we use authorizations, and your right to approve the release of personal health information (PHI)
- How to request restrictions on the use or disclosure of PHI, amendments to PHI, access to your PHI, or an accounting of disclosures of PHI
- Our commitment to protect your privacy
- Our policy on sharing personal health information with Plan sponsors and employers
*Information can be found in Member Handbook
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