Thread by @EdGainesIII

1/ Folks, @UHC must be called out w/ official complaints to the NSA CMS complaint portal as they have created an artificial, illegal & unnecessary process to try to "burn the clock" on physician's rights under the #NSA. To wit here's what they direct physicians to do, bare w/...

2/ me--from #UHC website: “How to submit an open negotiation request by email or mail section.”
Reminder: If you submit a negotiation request through that portal, you will not need to complete either the Open Negotiation Notice Form or the Supplemental Open Negotiation....

3/ Request Form." And here are the @UHC forms--they are creating an illegal "acceptance process" when CMS has promulgated exactly 1 form for the official 30-day Open Negotiation Period notice; and unlike other CMS forms, it's not suggested--they want...
uhcprovider.com/content/dam/pr…

4/ the official CMS form used (see link below); folks you have exactly 30 business days to file the CMS Open Negotiation period notice from the initial payment or denial--#UHC knows this & yet they require a log-in & password + UHC states that both the CMS form & their form....

5/ must be completed FOR EACH DISPUTED CLAIM--WRONG! UHC is attempting to "run out the clock" (ala Dean Smith's famous 4 corners, apologies to my Tarheel friends 2 mention the HOF coach in the same sentence w/ UHC) so that physicians 30 business days run out on the claims--how..

6/ so--we know this when you look at the form & it asks you to select "create claim reconsideration" & then to submit a reconsideration--folks that's a claim appeal & that is not the federally mandated 30-day open negotiation period notice! While they are sitting on the appeal...

7/ your 30 business day period just expired & those claims are no longer eligible for IDR--UHC is completely out of control & @CMSGov has to intervene--while @UHC continues to post record $Bs in profits each quarter--earnings up 19% YOY--this is an outrage & a new low even for...

8/ them & that is really saying something. Time every specialty & healthcare organization file complaints--here's the link cms.gov/nosurprises/po… and here is the only official 30 day open negotiation period notice & THERE IS LEGALLY NO ACCEPTANCE PROCESS
dol.gov/sites/dolgov/f…

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