Tag: Monopoly
CMS sets July end date for CHOPD program
June 18, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – CMS has announced that payments under the Accelerated and Advance Payment (AAP) Program for the Change Healthcare/Optum Payment Disruption (CHOPD) will conclude on July 12, 2024.
Launched in early March, the CHOPD payments were designed to ease cash flow disruptions experienced by some Medicare providers and suppliers, such as hospitals, physicians and pharmacists, due to the unprecedented cyberattack that took health care electronic data interchange Change Healthcare...
Managed care monopoly?
May 30, 2014Liz Beaulieu, Editor
ORLANDO, Fla. - Industry stakeholders are taking issue with Univita Health's role as both a third-party administrator (TPA) and HME provider in Florida's transition to managed care for Medicaid.
Univita has been chosen as the network administrator for 10 of the 14 plans participating in the program, representing roughly 84% of impacted Medicaid recipients. That means it decides which providers are allowed into its network and which get referrals, according to Deanna Rollyson, president...