{"id":8830,"date":"2026-01-30T22:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=8830"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:13:54","slug":"payment-policy-updates-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/payment-policy-updates-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Payment Policy Updates (February 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England is committed to reviewing our internal procedures and defining coverage and billing guidelines with applicable laws and industry standards to ensure our policies are appropriate. To access payment policies, please visit\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about the information in this notice, please contact Health New England Provider Experience at (800) 842-4464, extension 5000. A representative is available Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The following policies were reviewed and updated:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"738\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"204\"><strong>Updates<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"114\"><strong>\u00a0Effective Date<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"420\"><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"204\"><strong>Payment Policy<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"114\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"420\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"204\">Updated &#8211; Provider Based Billing<\/td>\n<td width=\"114\">02\/01\/2026<\/td>\n<td width=\"420\">\n<ul>\n<li>All lines of business<\/li>\n<li>Added clarifying language examples in reimbursement section<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England is committed to reviewing our internal procedures and defining coverage and billing guidelines with applicable laws and industry standards to ensure our policies are appropriate. To access payment policies, please visit\u202fhealthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources. If you have any questions about the information in this notice, please contact Health New England Provider Experience at (800) 842-4464, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provider-newsletter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-2iq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8833,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions\/8833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}