Blue Choice PPO^SM, Blue Essentials^SM, Blue Advantage HMO^SM, Blue Premier^SM, MyBlue Health^SM, Blue High Performance^SM Schedules Effective 2/1/24

As of February 1, 2024: Reimbursement Changes/Updates

Assistant Surgery allowable is 16% of the Surgery rate.

Physician Assistants, Advance Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurse First Assistants, Licensed Surgical Assistants, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Physical Therapy Assistants, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Speech Therapy Assistants, and Nurse Midwives will be reimbursed at 85% of the maximum allowable fee as described above based on participating role (primary care or specialist). As it pertains to the aforementioned providers, Drugs, Clinical Lab, Other Lab, Durable Medical Equipment/ Prosthetics and Orthotics will not be subject to the reduction.

Facility Relative Values

Non-Facility Relative Values

Place of Treatment Eligible CPTs

Professional component for procedures listed on the Lab Schedules will be reimbursed at $5.00 for HMO and $5.50 for PPO.

Codes not listed may require individual consideration (IC) to determine the BCBSTX compensation allowable amount.

Clinical Lab Schedule

Other Lab Codes Schedule

Codes not listed may require individual consideration (IC) to determine the BCBSTX compensation allowable amount

DME Codes can be found under the "Other Codes Schedule" listed below

The Drug/ BCBSTX vaccine pricing methodology is based on the CDC Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Private Sector Cost when available. BCBSTX monitors the CDC Private Sector Cost webpage for monthly changes in vaccines in an effort to adjust its reimbursement with the changes that may occur with the CDC Private Sector rate changes. When new vaccine codes are released or increases are issued, we will price them based on the percentage of the CDC Private Sector Cost disclosed in the provider participation letter. In the event there is not a CDC Private Sector rate, BCBSTX will utilize other sources, including but not limited to public sector Average Wholesale Price, Maximum Allowable cost, and Wholesale Acquisition cost.

*Disclaimer: In the event the CDC Private Sector rates change, BCBSTX attempts to update their reimbursement schedules within thirty (30) days for vaccine pricing increases and no later than ninety (90) days.

Injectable Fee Schedule will be updated on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 each year.

Codes not listed may require individual consideration (IC) to determine the BCBSTX compensation allowable amount.

CPT/HCPCS Drug Schedule

The NDC Fee Schedule will be updated monthly.

The allowed amount posted for each NDC reflects one unit of measure.  Certain drugs may be administered as partial units (i.e., 0.5 or 0.7), while others may be multiple units (i.e., 2 or 5).  The correct NDC units provided (whether partial, single or multiple) should be used as the multiplier to determine the actual allowed amount.

NDC Drug Schedules

Procedures not covered in the above reimbursement schedules will be addressed in this section.

Assistant Surgery allowable is 16% of the Surgery rate.

Physician Assistants, Advance Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurse First Assistants, Licensed Surgical Assistants, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Physical Therapy Assistants, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Speech Therapy Assistants, and Nurse Midwives will be reimbursed at 85% of the maximum allowable fee as described above based on participating role (primary care or specialist). As it pertains to the aforementioned providers, Drugs, Clinical Lab, Other Lab, Durable Medical Equipment/ Prosthetics and Orthotics will not be subject to the reduction.

Codes not listed may require individual consideration (IC) to determine the BCBSTX compensation allowable amount.

Other Codes Schedule