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For clinicians and practice administrators in Tennessee. First confirm the Blue Plan for your practice or claim-service location. Use the location used for billing, not your client’s home plan. Start with the payer’s registration link below. Your practice needs both portal access and an active nonparticipating record with the payer.Where are you in the process?
- Starting for the first time or unsure? Check with the payer whether your practice already has a record under the same tax ID and service location, then follow the steps below for the record you need.
- Adding a clinician to an existing practice? Ask the payer how to add the clinician, complete any required individual enrollment, and link them to the existing practice. Do not create a new practice just to add a clinician.
- Already submitted, waiting for approval? Check your pending registration using the submission reference. Do not send a duplicate application unless the payer asks you to.
- Practice and required clinician affiliations confirmed active? Notify Thrizer Support.
Before you start
Have your practice’s legal name, tax ID (EIN/TIN), service address, and each clinician’s rendering NPI and license information ready. Use details that match Thrizer. The practice coordinates registration; group clinicians do not need to create separate practices. The payer may require individual enrollment and group affiliations.1
Open the payer’s registration route
Open BCBST Documents & Forms, choose Enrollment, and follow Out Of Network Provider Form under Contracting and Credentialing to Availity. The section heading does not itself mean this form requires joining a network. Sign in with your practice’s authorized account.If the link lands on the dashboard rather than a form, open the navigation menu, select the Tennessee region, then Payer Spaces → BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee → Applications → Provider Enrollment & Updates. Its third-party handoff requires Select an Organization. Use only your actual authorized practice; if it is missing, ask your administrator or BCBST for help. This general enrollment tool does not itself verify a first-time nonparticipating branch. Confirm that branch with BCBST if the next screen is unclear, and do not submit a network or demographic-change request as a substitute.
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Confirm the route for your practice
Before entering information, check whether the form is for a new or existing record and an individual or group. If it does not fit your situation, ask BCBST’s provider team for the first-time nonparticipating route and the process for affiliating clinicians.The public link includes existing-provider/group parameters; it does not prove that the first screen fits a new solo practice. Do not rely on an old downloaded form’s email, fax, or attachment list without BCBST confirmation. Availity access alone does not complete registration.
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Complete and submit the confirmed request
Once the payer confirms the right new-record, addition, or update process, complete and submit the application or request through that channel with the documents it requires for your practice. Ask the payer about unclear fields or attestations before submitting; do not guess.Keep a copy, the submission confirmation, and any case number. Then follow the pending-registration guidance until the payer confirms activation. A receipt does not mean your record is active.
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Confirm activation, then notify Thrizer
Ask the payer to confirm that the practice record and all required clinician affiliations are active. Keep the approval confirmation and related documents; a submission receipt or portal login does not establish activation.Send the confirmation to Thrizer Support and review the next steps. Support identifies affected claims and reviews which are eligible for resubmission. Do not duplicate pending claims solely because registration became active.