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AHIP 2024: UnitedHealth, Elevance Execs Get Real About Provider-Directory Woes

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    Jun 14, 2024

    There are persistent challenges around the collection and transmission of that data between providers and payers. The same is true of the quality of the data itself. It's a key challenge for the health insurance industry as payers try to measure provider quality and transition to value-based contracting.

    "I'll just say the accuracy of our directory is bad. It just is," said Mike Kane, senior vice president for provider data operations at UnitedHealthcare. Kane was speaking on a June 12 panel organized by the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) at the 2024 AHIP Conference in Las Vegas. "About half of every single provider [data profile] that our members call, there's at least one data element in our directory that's wrong."

    "It's a horrible, horrible experience," Kane said.

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    Peter has worked as a journalist since 2011 and has covered health care since 2020. At AIS Health, Peter covers trends in finance, business and policy that affect the health insurance and pharma sectors. For Health Plan Weekly, he covers all aspects of the U.S. health insurance sector, including employer-sponsored insurance, Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces. In Radar on Drug Benefits, Peter covers the operations of (and conflicts between) pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers, with a particular focus on pricing dynamics and market access. Before joining AIS Health, Peter covered transportation, public safety and local government for various outlets in Seattle, his hometown and current place of residence. He graduated with a B.A. from Colby College.

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