Availity^® Essentials Training

BCBSTX provides complimentary training opportunities for providers, billing services, clinical and administrative staff members who are new or already participating in our network. You're invited to join us for informal or participate in convenient online training sessions. For complete course descriptions and prerequisites, please select any of the courses below.

Register for the following Availity Essentials trainings by visiting the Availity Learning and Training Center.

Availity^® Essentials Prior Authorizations, Referrals, & Recommended Clinical Review Tools

Learn how to electronically submit inpatient and outpatient prior authorizations, referrals, and RCR requests handled by BCBSTX using the Availity Authorizations & Referral and BlueApprovR^SM tools.

• Every Wednesday (except corporate holidays) from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CT

Availity Essentials Claim Status, Clinical Appeals, Reconsiderations and Message This Payer 

Learn how to verify enhanced claim status, submit clinical claim appeals, reconsiderations requests and Message This Payer online and monitor status using the Availity Claim Status tool.

• Every Thursday (except corporate holidays) from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CT  

Availity is a trademark of Availity, LLC, a separate company that operates a health information network to provide electronic information exchange services to medical professionals. Availity provides administrative services to BCBSTX.  BCBSTX makes no endorsement, representations or warranties regarding any products or services offered.