Credentialing and Contracting. Retirement Postponed - The targeted February 2017 retirement date for AOPS has been postponed. Communications will be updated once a new date has been determined. Coming Soon  Important self-service information currently on AOPS will be available on the Availity Web Portal. Look for details about this new tool in early 2017 communications. Remittance Inquiry and Fee Schedule Inquiry are available via the Availity Web Portal under Payer Spaces at.
Citrus Aurantium by Another Name. Citrus Aurantium (the second word is pronounced oh-RAN-see-um) is more commonly known as the herb bitter orange. Today it is usually seen as an ingredient in weight loss products, although traditionally it has been used as a medicine by the Chinese for chest and stomach illnesses.
Most cultivated Citrus seem to be natural or artificial hybrids of four core ancestral species â the citron, pummelo, mandarine, and papeda (see image). Natural and cultivated citrus hybrids include commercially important fruit such as oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes, and some tangerines.Apart from these four core citrus species, there are Australian limes and the recently-discovered Mangshanyegan.he middle layer of the pericarp is the mesocarp, which in citrus fruits consists of the white, spongy albedo, or pith. The innermost layer of the pericarp is the endocarp. The segments are also called  liths , and the space inside each lith is a locule filled with juice vesicles, or pulp.