Attention Providers: Change Healthcare Update Change Healthcare (CHC) can resume submitting claims to RI Medicaid. This means if you are doing business with CHC, they can submit your claims to RI Medicaid and CHC can now resume downloading your 835/277unsolicited transactions.Please reach out to your clearing house representative with any questions you may have regarding the submissions. You can also reach out to riediservices@gainwelltechnologies.com.
DESI Drug List The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Non-Reimbursable Drug Products The Drug Efficacy Study Implementation (DESI) was a program begun by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the 1960s after the Kefauver-Harris Drug Control Act, which was passed in 1962, required all drugs be efficacious as well as safe. The link below is for a list of the drugs and associated National Drug Codes (NDC) that are coded as DESI and therefore are not reimbursable by the RI Medicaid program. DESI Drug List desi_list.pdf PDF file, less than 1mbmegabytes