The UnitedHealth Premium program provides physician designations based on quality and cost-efficiency criteria to help members make more informed choices about their medical care.
Physicians may also use these designations when referring patients to other physicians. In markets where tiered benefit plans are available, employers may choose to offer their employees a tiered benefit plan with a lower member cost share for using Premium Care Physicians.
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Attribution methods based on health plan claims data determine which physicians are responsible for care given to patients.
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The Premium program is available for commercial products in 45 states.
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For both the quality and cost-efficiency measurements, the Premium program compares the physician’s performance to a case-mix adjusted benchmark. Case-mix adjustment accounts for variations in the composition of the patients and cases each physician treats. The Premium program uses severity adjustment for patient episode costs and certain quality measures and risk adjustment for patient total cost.
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The Premium program uses a five-step process to evaluate the physician’s cost efficiency performance and assigns a cost efficiency rating.
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There are 2 measurements applied for the evaluation of cost efficiency: Patient total cost and Patient episode cost.
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The Premium program excludes patient and episode cost outliers in the cost-efficiency evaluation.
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The UnitedHealth Premium program provides physician designations based on quality and cost-efficiency criteria to help members make more informed choices for their medical care.
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The UnitedHealth Premium® program’s cost-efficiency evaluation compares a physician’s cost-efficiency performance to physicians in the same Premium specialty and geographic area.
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The UnitedHealth Premium program provides physician designations based on quality and cost efficiency criteria to help members make more informed choices about their medical care. Physicians may also use these designations when referring patients to other physicians and to support their efforts to provide quality and cost-efficient care to their patients
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Patient episode cost reflects a combination of resource utilization, resource mix and unit cost. Episodes include services delivered to a patient related to a specific procedure or treatment of a condition.
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Patient total cost is the risk-adjusted total cost per month for a patient. This includes services from episodes for conditions relevant to the scope of practice for the physician’s Premium specialty.
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The Premium program evaluates physicians in 17 premium specialties representing 47 credentialed specialties.
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The Premium program uses a 4-step process to evaluate the physician’s quality performance.
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The Premium program includes National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognition programs in the quality evaluation. The Premium program adds 25 measures or 10% of the physician’s total measures ‒ whichever is larger ‒as compliant measures, to the quality evaluation for physicians who have achieved recognition in one or more of these programs applicable to their Premium specialty.
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Select states have requirements governing physician measurement programs that are different from other standard UnitedHealth Premium program processes. In these states, the Premium program may follow different or additional processes for physicians who are evaluated by the program.
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The UnitedHealth Premium program applies statistical tests to determine if there is a statistically significant difference between the physician’s performance and the target benchmark.
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The UnitedHealth Premium reconsideration process allows physicians to request a correction or change to certain quality and/or cost-efficiency information included in their Premium evaluation.
For more information on requesting reconsideration, please click here.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the allergy Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the cardiology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the ear, nose and throat Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the electrophysiology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the endocrinology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the family medicine Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the gastroenterology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the general surgery Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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The following chart lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the internal medicine Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the nephrology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the neurology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the neurosurgery and spine Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the obstetrics and gynecology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the pediatrics Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the pulmonology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the rheumatology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.
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This document lists the measures we use to evaluate physicians in the urology Premium specialty by condition or procedure. Use this document with the UnitedHealth Premium® Program Methodology document at UnitedHealthPremium.UHC.com.