Partnering with Payers

Partnering
with Payers

Millennium Health is a CLIA certified and CAP accredited clinical laboratory with over 15 years of experience delivering timely, accurate, clinically actionable information through our Millennium UDT℠ and Millennium OFT℠ services. Millennium UDT and OFT provide medication monitoring and drug testing services for health care providers who focus in areas such as pain management, substance use disorder, behavioral health and primary care to provide definitive detection of more than 100 drugs and metabolites encompassing over 400 brand names.

Millennium Health’s Market Access Team consists of professionals who draw on decades of payer engagement, clinical and relevant commercial experience in the toxicology laboratory space. The team works diligently to ensure that Millennium Health’s services are available to healthcare providers and the patients they serve. The team is committed to providing value to health plans, employer groups and their members, and to contributing to Millennium Health’s goal of a best-in-class experience.

Our team shares the desire of our payers to improve healthcare outcomes and positively affect the lives of patients. We work to optimize the value of toxicology testing while controlling costs and improving quality through collaborative relationships with our payer partners. We strive to not just meet the needs of our payers, but to exceed their expectations.

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Millennium Health’s Market Access Team is accustomed to working in an ever-changing, highly competitive environment. We are driven by our passion to help payers, clinicians and patients. Our integrity has fostered relationships with our payer partners built on trust in our ability to provide effective solutions to meet their needs.

Millennium Health is a participating provider with Medicare/Medicaid and continues to work with payers to expand access and coverage of our offerings. We currently provide in-network services for over 200 national and regional plans, and through collaborative payer engagement, are focused on:

Working to Help Reduce Healthcare Costs
Providing Best-in-Class Clinical Excellence
Resource for Media and Governmental Policy Leaders on National Drug Use Trends

Commitment to Compliance

Millennium Health is committed to providing the highest standards of ethics, conduct and compliance in everything we do. Compliance presents an opportunity to establish and promote operational excellence throughout our entire company, as we continue to build our organization on the principles of excellence.

Intellium® and its supporting infrastructure are HITRUST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Certified. This certification ensures that our laboratory information systems are well vetted and secure. HITRUST CSF Certification is the gold standard for health care information security and demonstrates that we meet and exceed regulations to safeguard sensitive information and manage information risk.

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Government Affairs

Millennium Health works in collaboration with federal and state policymakers, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of the Inspector General and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Working to Help Reduce Healthcare Costs

Millennium Health is committed to promoting responsible, medically necessary drug testing by:

Partnering with healthcare providers to support appropriate utilization practices through proactive customer education on medical policies and guidelines created by professional medical organizations related to the services we offer.
Successfully collaborating with payers to help reduce out-of-network expenditures

Utilizing Intellium℠, our proprietary, web-based platform to:
- Educate healthcare providers on payer policies by embedding payer policy intelligence within the ordering process to support medical policy compliant use of definitive laboratory testing.
- Provide a real-time look at statewide and practice level trends in drug use informing medically necessary and patient-specific ordering of testing based on this information

Providing Best-in-Class Clinical Excellence

We are dedicated to clinical excellence, from the quality of our testing, to offering resources, education, and the reporting of real-time drug use trends. Our Clinical Affairs team is passionate about providing everything needed for clinicians to get the most of their patients’ test results, and includes:

A credentialed field clinical team of PharmDs, PhDs and a nurse clinical resource specialist
Toxicologists available via our RADAR® Hotline

Processing over a million specimens each year allows us to provide real-time analytics regarding emerging drug use trends. As part of our commitment to clinical excellence, we conduct ongoing research and have published several peer-reviewed articles.