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Dedicated HIPAA-trained teams run your Anthem and Wellpoint eligibility checks, prior authorizations, Carelon-delegated reviews, claims and denial follow-up, and enrollment paperwork inside your own PM system and payer portals. Flat weekly pricing from $299 per FTE (volume based), with a trained backup included at no charge. Live in 14 days.
What Is Elevance Health?
Elevance Health is the corporate parent that carried the name Anthem, Inc. until June 2022, and it reaches your desk through three brand families. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans are Blue licensees in 14 states: they follow the Blues’ rules, three-character prefixes, BlueCard routing, and licensee-by-licensee processes. Wellpoint is the non-Blue government-programs brand: the former Amerigroup Medicaid and Medicare plans took the Wellpoint name in Maryland in 2023 and in Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington in January 2024. Carelon is the services arm, and one subsidiary touches provider workflows directly: Carelon Medical Benefits Management, formerly AIM Specialty Health, runs delegated utilization review for many plans. For a billing desk the practical rule is that the brand on the member card, not the corporate name, decides the portal, the payer ID, and the paperwork.
The Elevance Health Work Your Team Does, We Staff
Eligibility and Benefits Verification for Anthem and Wellpoint
Our specialists verify Anthem and Wellpoint members before the visit: they check coverage, confirm plan type and cost shares, record which brand family holds the member, and flag services that carry authorization requirements, so the claim that follows starts clean. The payer-side reality we absorb for you: provider self-service for Anthem plans runs through Availity Essentials, the multipayer portal Anthem designates for eligibility, benefits, claim status, and authorizations, and the Wellpoint plans run their provider transactions through Availity as well, with plan-specific resources on each state’s Wellpoint provider site. Verification also means reading the card correctly: an Anthem member is a Blue member with a three-character prefix and licensee routing, while a Wellpoint member belongs to a state Medicaid or Medicare product with state rules. Your team hands us the schedule; we hand back verified accounts, the same work behind our dedicated Anthem eligibility verification service.
Prior Authorization Support, Including Carelon-Delegated Reviews
Our authorization specialists confirm the requirement during eligibility, submit through the required path, chase the determination, and log the authorization number where billing will find it, the same workflow behind our dedicated Anthem prior authorization service. The complexity we take off your desk: on many Elevance Health plans the review does not live with the plan at all. Carelon Medical Benefits Management, the delegated utilization management subsidiary formerly known as AIM Specialty Health, handles categories of review for many Anthem plans, so a request that starts on an Anthem member can spend its whole life in a Carelon queue, with its own portal, its own documentation expectations, and its own status checks. Working delegated-UM portals is administrative routing, not clinical judgment; medical decisions stay with your providers and the plan. Knowing whether a given service on a given plan goes to the plan or to Carelon, before the visit, is the difference between an authorization on file and a denial to appeal.
Claims and Billing Follow-Up Across Two Brand Families
Our billers submit each claim under the correct brand family the first time, keep follow-up on a cadence through that plan’s channels, and document the routing on the account so the next claim does not repeat the research. Anthem claims are Blue claims: they follow the licensee model, the three-character prefix, and BlueCard home and host routing, the full playbook we maintain on our Blue Cross Blue Shield payer page, this page’s sibling. Wellpoint claims are state plan claims that follow the state contract and manual. The transition era adds its own queue work: the Wellpoint name replaced Amerigroup in Maryland in 2023 and in six more states in January 2024, and accounts from that era still surface legacy payer names in PM systems. We keep the payer setup current on the accounts we touch, so claims stop routing toward a name that no longer answers, and remits post where billing expects them.
Wellpoint Medicaid Plan Support, State by State
Our teams work Wellpoint the way state Medicaid demands: as separate plans under separate state contracts, not one national payer. Wellpoint operates Elevance Health’s non-Blue Medicaid and Medicare plans in states including Arizona, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, each with its own provider manual, authorization lists, and state program rules. The standing workload is eligibility churn: Medicaid members renew coverage at least once a year under post-2023 renewal operations, and a member who verified cleanly last month can arrive next month mid-renewal or termed. Our specialists re-verify Wellpoint schedules monthly and near the date of service, catch renewal lapses before the visit instead of after the denial, and route the claims that do term retroactively into eligibility rework and state plan follow-up rather than the write-off pile.
Denials and AR Follow-Up for Elevance Health Plans
Our teams work Elevance Health aging by brand family and plan: statused through Availity where possible, called when it is not, disputed with the right plan’s process, and reported to you daily in your own format. The payer-side variance we track for you: timely filing and dispute windows are set per plan and per your participation contract, an Anthem denial can require the home plan’s rules even though follow-up runs through your local channels, and a denial on a Carelon-reviewed service needs the authorization record from the Carelon portal attached before the appeal goes anywhere. Wellpoint adds the Medicaid denial family, retro-terminations and renewal lapses, which route to eligibility rework rather than appeals. Queues split this way reward a dedicated specialist who owns them daily and punish desks that only touch this payer when someone has a free afternoon.
Credentialing and Enrollment Support Across Brands
Credentialing with this payer follows the brand split too: Anthem credentialing runs under the Blue licensee that holds your state, while Wellpoint enrollment runs under the state Medicaid program and the plan’s own process, and joining one does not enroll you in the other. Our credentialing specialists prepare and submit the applications per plan, keep CAQH attestations current so plan reviews do not stall, track recredentialing dates before a missed cycle turns into a network drop, and follow enrollment status with the plan until the effective date is confirmed in writing. When you add a provider, a location, or a new Elevance Health contract, the paperwork moves without pulling your practice manager off the desk, and the effective dates land on the billing calendar where they belong.
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Elevance Health Billing: Real Questions From the Desk
Is Anthem the same thing as Elevance Health?
Elevance Health is the corporate name the company took in June 2022; Anthem remains its Blue Cross Blue Shield brand in the 14 states where it holds Blue licenses. Members carry Anthem cards, claims run under the Anthem plans, and the corporate name rarely appears in day-to-day billing.
Is Wellpoint the same as Amerigroup?
Yes by lineage: the Amerigroup Medicaid and Medicare plans were renamed Wellpoint, in Maryland in 2023 and in Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington in January 2024. The plans stated that member benefits and provider tools carried over with the name change.
Do we submit Anthem claims and eligibility through Availity?
Availity Essentials is the portal Anthem designates for provider self-service: eligibility and benefits, claim submission and status, and authorization workflows. Wellpoint provider transactions run through Availity as well. Phone and EDI channels remain for what the portal does not answer.
What is Carelon, and why did our authorization request end up there?
Carelon is Elevance Health’s services division. Carelon Medical Benefits Management, formerly AIM Specialty Health, runs delegated utilization review for categories of services on many Anthem plans, so the plan’s own rules send certain requests to a Carelon portal instead of the plan. The determination still applies to the member’s plan benefits.
Does this page cover Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield claims too?
The corporate structure, yes; the Blues mechanics, no. Anthem plans are Blue licensees, so their claims follow prefixes, BlueCard home and host routing, and licensee rules, which we cover in depth on our Blue Cross Blue Shield payer support page. Use that page for Blue-branded workflows and this one for the corporate and non-Blue lines.
Are Wellpoint Medicaid rules the same in every state?
No. Each Wellpoint plan operates under its own state Medicaid contract, with its own provider manual, authorization lists, and timely filing terms. Treat each state’s Wellpoint plan as its own payer on the account record, the way you would any Medicaid MCO.
Our PM system still shows Amerigroup on old accounts. Does that break claims?
It can slow them. The plans carried provider tools and IDs through the rename, but stale payer names in a PM system invite misrouted claims and confused posting. Confirm the current payer name and ID against the plan’s own notices, update the payer setup, and leave a note on the account for the next biller.
Can your team work inside our Availity account and PM system?
Yes. Our specialists work under named individual logins you grant and can revoke, inside your PM system, clearinghouse, and portals including Availity Essentials and Carelon portals. Your data stays in your systems, we report production daily, and you can review our activity in your own system.
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Dan Nandan has spent 25+ years in IT consulting and healthcare BPO, was among the first in the US to build an RPO/BPO delivery network overseas, and has been featured in Computerworld. He runs the operations and the dedicated virtual teams behind the payer workflows on this page, including the Anthem prior authorization and eligibility services linked above.
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