Preparing for your UBH Audit: Tips and Lessons Learned for Autism Treatment Providers
The final step in the contracting process with United Behavioral Health (UBH)/Optum is an audit. Depending on the type of agency, the audit may involve either a site visit by an auditor or a remote audit in which the autism treatment provider must send in documentation demonstrating that their practice and practitioners meet with UBH’s requirements. The UBH website offers prospective “auditees” access to the actual audit tools the auditors use. UBH has established a performa
If You Can’t Keep the Lights On, No One Benefits!
Many behavioral health agencies, and in particular those focused on autism treatment, are established out of a desire for clinical freedom. The founders of these agencies are rarely MBAs or suit-clad business men or women, but rather clinicians frustrated by working for someone else. What this means is that caring and passionate clinicians are now “business owners” burdened with the everyday administrative, managerial and financial headaches they likely didn’t take into accou
