Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) Director Wayne Turnage confirmed that the City's plan to make DC providers hit a roadblock. Daniel Watkins, the receiver running Chartered's dissolution, rejected the City's offer to settle part of a $60 million disagreement over rates paid to the company from 2010 to 2012.
District Providers Urged to File Claims Now 
   DHCF Director Turnage emphasized that physicians need to get all claims as quickly as possible into AmeriHealth, which assumed the DC Chartered Health Plan contract on May 1, 2013.
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   MSDC continues to work hard getting the Uniform Electronic Prior Authorization Form Amendment Act of 2013 implemented here in the District of Columbia. We have done our part to testify at a hearing to make this Act a reality and we continue to work hard to get it passed as law. Anyone who has ever dealt with the incredibly difficult task of filing multiple forms for different insurers to get patients approved for the procedures they desperately need knows that this type of legislation will save time and make physicians' and hospitals' work significantly easier.

 

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