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Meridian and its Family of Plans to Transition Provider Portals to Availity Essentials

Date: 09/04/24

As a commitment to making it easier to work with us, Meridian and its family of plans—including Meridian Medicaid Plan, Meridian Medicare-Medicaid Plan (MMP), YouthCare, Ambetter, and Wellcare—have chosen Availity Essentials™ as its new, secure provider portal.

  • Starting November 18, you can validate eligibility and benefits, submit claims, check claim status, submit authorizations, and access payer resources via Availity Essentials. If you are already working in Availity Essentials, you can log in to your existing account to enjoy these benefits for members beginning November 18.

Check out some of the time-saving tools that come with an Availity Essentials account.

  • Use Availity Essentials to verify member eligibility and benefits, submit claims, check claim status (24 months from date of service), submit authorizations, and more.
  • Look for additional functionality in Meridian’s payer space on Availity Essentials and use the heart icon to add apps to My Favorites in the top navigation bar.
  • Access Manage My Organization – Providers to save provider information. You can then auto-populate that information repeatedly to eliminate repetitive data entry and reduce errors.
  • Save provider information in Availity Essentials and auto-populate it to save time and prevent errors.
  • Our current secure provider portals are still available, but sunsetting is planned.

If you are new to Availity Essentials, establishing an account is the first step to working with Meridian on Availity. Please designate an Availity administrator for your provider organization.

Your provider organization’s designated Availity administrator is the person responsible for registering your organization in Availity Essentials and managing user accounts. This person should have legal authority to sign agreements for your organization.

HOW DOES THIS IMPACT ME?

WHAT IS MY NEXT BEST STEP?

I am the administrator.

I am the designated Availity administrator for my organization. 

Visit Register and Get Started with Availity Essentials to enroll for training and access other helpful resources.

 

I am not the administrator. 

I am NOT the designated Availity administrator for my organization.

Your designated Availity administrator will determine who needs access to Availity Essentials on behalf of your organization and will add user accounts in Essentials.

I am not sure. 

I am not sure who will be the designated Availity administrator for my organization.

Share this information with your manager to help determine who will be the designated Availity administrator for your organization. 

 

We're excited to welcome you to Availity Essentials, helping you transform the way you impact patient care with Meridian. If you need additional assistance with your registration, please call Availity Client Services at 800-AVAILITY (282-4548), Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET. For general questions, please reach out to your Meridian Provider Engagement Administrator.