System Alerts
Issued 06/25/2014 at 2:51 PM

UPDATED: Attention Arkansas and Texas Providers – Duplicate Physician Quality Reporting System Payments

Updated 06/24/2014: Novitas has completed the process of recouping payments due to this system issue. Thank you for your patience.

Updated 5/30/14: Novitas has started the initiation of recouping Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) duplicate payments impacted by this system issue. This process will occur over the next several weeks. Thank you for your patience.

ISSUED: 5/8/2014
A system issue has been identified where some Texas and Arkansas Part B providers have received incorrect Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) payments. Due to a system problem, payments were issued on May 1, 2014, which duplicate payments that were originally issued on November 1, 2013. Novitas is currently taking necessary steps in order to correct the duplicate payments and will update this alert as additional information is available. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.