NAVCP members shape initiatives under each of the three primary focus areas:

  • Advocating for policies and regulations that preserve and expand access to affordable, quality vision care
  • Simplifying administrative complexity to optimize patient care
  • Serving as an educational resource for industry insight and information

Administrative Simplification

Administrative costs for managed vision care plans and eye care professionals are a significant contributor to the cost of healthcare. Both in dollars and in time. NAVCP and its members actively explore solutions to lessen this necessary burden.

NAVCP's Universal Credentialing Alliance is the association's solution for simplifying provider credentialing for both managed vision care (MVC) plans and eye care professionals. NAVCP also is exploring strategies for achieving efficiencies by streamlining non-proprietary data collection, network development, provider directory information accuracy and more. The association is a leader in simplifying healthcare administration.

NAVCP Universal Credentialing Alliance (UCA)

The NAVCP Universal Credentialing Alliance (UCA) was launched on Dec. 1, 2015 to achieve three key objectives:

  • Align the credentialing dates of providers that participate in multiple MVC plan networks.
  • Drive out redundant primary source verification (PSV) costs for MVC plans.
  • Reduce administrative workload for eye care professionals.

UCA has successfully cut the expected credentialing cost for a provider in half by:

  • Using a single, uniform credentialing application format that allows providers to enter in their information one time instead of for every plan.
  • A uniform approach to PSV.
  • Creating a more efficient and common re-credentialing schedule across MVC plans.

Currently, more than 57,000 eye care professionals are credentialed or will be re-credentialed through UCA. Nine MVC plans participate in the alliance and more are expected to join soon.

What are the Alliance Members Saying?

Since helping found the Alliance, UnitedHealthcare Vision has improved our operations, achieved cost savings, and had additional opportunities to collaborate with other Alliance members. Our overall cost to maintain compliance and ongoing sanction monitoring is significantly lower than it was pre-Alliance, in part due to dividing the provider recredential file costs among the participating vision plans. In addition, best-practice sharing among Alliance members has helped us simplify our internal processes and reduce provider on boarding time.

For more information about participating in the alliance, please contact Carol Kurtz at ckurtz@aapan.org.

Advocacy

Federal

NAVCP’s Federal Advocacy program continuously monitors activities in our nation's capital with an eye on our member’s legislative priorities. We stay on top of any pending regulatory and legislative change so we can move quickly to make certain the industry's voice is part of the discussion. Weekly advocacy updates ensure member companies are informed. And can effectively engage when the need arises.

To ensure that legislators and regulators listen not just meet, we communicate regularly with them and their staffs through in-person visits, fund raisers, responses to requests for ideas, written testimony and formal correspondence.

State

NAVCP also keeps tabs on the pulse of legislative and regulatory activities in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Working closely with our members, NAVCP annually identifies the issues that limit consumer and employer access to affordable, quality vision care and add unnecessary administrative burden.

We work to make our members’ collective voice heard through strategic initiatives that engage association-retained counsel, state association partners, and industry allies, by delivering testimony, and conducting grassroots advocacy. We also work to make the industry’s voice louder and more compelling through active participation in national and state-level, policy-oriented organizations.

Industry Education

As a voice for the managed vision care industry NAVCP provides a forum for cooperative industry initiatives that work to educate, preserve and strengthen consumer access to affordable, quality vision care. Member collaboration plays out through annual events, committees, councils and workgroups.

NAVCP's Provider Council program expands educational dialogue and understanding by better involving eye care professionals from a variety of practice settings. Regular in-person and online interactions throughout the year are offering valuable insights to MVC plans and providers alike.