UnitedHealthcare Reimbursement Policy Update
Posted Mar 26, 2021
As of March 1st, 2021, UnitedHealthcare has made several updates to their reimbursement policy for Advanced Practice Health Care Providers. The previous policy change was made on April 13th, 2020 when the word “Commercial” was added to the policy header.
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Posted Feb 19, 2021
After some delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the final set of guidelines that will govern the Medicare payment system for 2021. The rule for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) was proposed earlier last year, and since then, slight revisions have been made including an improvement in the conversion factor and a change to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) performance threshold.
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Updated QPP Tools Now Eligible for Practice Use
Posted Aug 28, 2018
What are QPP Tools?
QPP stands for Quality Payment Program. The Quality Payment Program was designed to improve Medicare by helping physicians focus on the quality of care over service volume. Prior to 2015, physicians were reimbursed on a fee-for-service model. In 2015, QPP was introduced, bringing a two track value-based reimbursement system to replace the existing system.
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