What is Availity Essentials?
Availity Essentials connects users with payers at no cost to providers, giving providers a one-stop-portal where they can check eligibility, submit claims, collect patient payments and track ERAs, and even sign up for EFT. Users can also update provider profiles, manage quality-of-care paperwork, and get detailed reporting about your office’s standard HIPAA and other payer transactions.
Standardized workflows enables users to handle:
- Patient registration
- Prior authorizations and referrals
- Patient payments
- Claims—professional and facility, also dental
- Solicited and unsolicited attachments
- Claims status tracking
- Electronic remittance advice (ERAs)
- Claim reconciliation and overpayment management
- Provider information management
- Reporting and dashboards