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Vol. 1 April 10, 2006

Welcome to our inaugural quarterly newsletter. To help with communications between our providers and payers, PCC is proud to offer a quarterly newsletter filled with important information and changes that have happened in the PCC network.

NEW STAFF ADDED TO THE PCC FAMILY
PCC is proud to announce that Beth Dauner has joined PCC as Director of Marketing. She comes to us from Preferred Health Systems where she served their company in many areas for the past 15 plus years. We are very excited about the resources she brings to our company along with new contracts we hope to offer our providers.

PROVIDER CONTRACTS DEADLINE
Please do not overlook the May 1, 2006 deadline for returning your provider contract, W-9 tax form and PCC questionnaire. Should you need assistance in this, please contact Kay in Provider Relations

CREDENTIALING UPDATE
PCC requires a current Malpractice Insurance Certificate on file at all times.
In order to meet this requirement, you may contact your Malpractice Insurance Carrier to request a Certificate Holder Addition Form to add PCC as a Certificate Holder. This will allow PCC to have an updated certificate on hand at all times.

CLAIMS DEPARTMENT
*Definity: As of January 1, 2006 PCC is no longer processing claims for Definity.United Health Care manages this account.

*PBA: Preferred Benefit Admini-strators is now the payer for the Via Christi Groups. This change took effect on January 1, 2006. Please check insurance cards to see which hospital groups this affects.

FEE SCHEDULE UPDATE
We are currently discussing code changes and fee reimbursements for the 2007 calendar year. A sample of CPTcodes we are checking on for approval:
S9090-VAX D therapy
97039-Hydro Bed therapy

Please note that at this time these codes are not approved for reimbursement. If you are using either of these procedures please code them using these CPT codes shown above.