Availity Essentials 2FA Setup Guide
Availity Essentials lets you secure your account with an authenticator app. With 2FA on, each login needs a fresh 6-digit code, keeping your Availity Essentials account safe even if your password leaks.
A Availity Essentials account holds sensitive health information that's well worth protecting with 2FA. Besides an authenticator app, Availity Essentials also offers SMS text codes and phone-call codes. An authenticator app (TOTP) is usually the best balance of security and convenience — and it's safer than SMS codes, which can be intercepted through SIM-swap attacks.
2FA methods Availity Essentials supports
- SMS text message
- Phone call
- Authenticator app (TOTP)
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Download Authenticator App - Novaz
Install Authenticator App - Novaz from the App Store on your iPhone or iPad and open it — you'll use it to scan Availity Essentials's QR code and generate your 6-digit sign-in codes.
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Sign in to Availity Essentials and open your Availity Essentials account security settings.
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Turn on two-factor authentication and choose the authenticator-app option.
Look for "Authenticator app", "Authentication app", or "TOTP" rather than SMS.
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Scan the QR code with Authenticator App - Novaz.
Open Authenticator App - Novaz, tap add, and point your camera at the QR code Availity Essentials displays. Can't scan? Enter the setup key manually instead.
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Enter the 6-digit code to confirm.
Type the code Authenticator App - Novaz generates to verify and link your Availity Essentials account.
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Save a way to recover your account.
If Availity Essentials shows backup or recovery codes, store them somewhere safe, away from your phone. If it doesn't, check how Availity Essentials recovers accounts (support, an admin, or another sign-in method) before you need it.
Menu names on Availity Essentials can change — the official Availity Essentials 2FA documentation ↗ always has the exact, current path.
How to recover your Availity Essentials account
If you lose access to your authenticator and Availity Essentials gave you backup or recovery codes when you turned on 2FA, sign in with one of them; keep them somewhere safe, away from your phone. Not every service issues codes. If Availity Essentials doesn't, or you didn't save them, use Availity Essentials's account-recovery or support process (or ask your admin, for a work account) to get back in.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Availity Essentials work with authenticator apps like Authenticator App - Novaz?
- Yes. Availity Essentials supports TOTP authenticator apps, so you can generate its two-factor codes in Authenticator App - Novaz.
- Is Availity Essentials two-factor authentication free?
- Yes. Enabling authenticator-app 2FA on Availity Essentials is free — you only need the free Authenticator App - Novaz.
- What if I lose access to my Availity Essentials 2FA codes?
- If Availity Essentials gave you backup or recovery codes during setup, sign in with one of them. If it didn't, or you didn't save them, use Availity Essentials's account recovery or contact its support (or your admin, for a work account), then add the account to Authenticator App - Novaz again.
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