AMENDMENT NO. 8 TO AMENDED AND RESTATED VENDOR AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.4
AMENDMENT NO. 8
TO AMENDED AND RESTATED VENDOR AGREEMENT
This Amendment No. 8 (“Amendment”), effective as of January 1, 2022 (“Amendment 8 Effective Date”), is made to that certain Amended and Restated Vendor Agreement (the “Agreement”), dated December 23, 2014, by and among American Well Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Vendor”), and Anthem, Inc. (“Anthem”), on behalf of itself and its affiliates, as amended. Unless otherwise defined, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Agreement.
WHEREAS, Anthem and Vendor desire to amend the Agreement to revise their commercial arrangement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and agreements contained herein, the Parties agree as follows:
“4.6 (c). Medicare CMS Direct Member Complaints, Grievances and Appeals (whether by a Member, Member representative or by a Provider or/and Practice on behalf of a Member)
(a) Notwithstanding the foregoing, Anthem shall send Vendor a copy of the complaint, grievance or appeal regarding Vendor Services in writing.via the following email address: _______.Vendor shall acknowledge receipt of the complaint, grievance of appeal within one (1) calendar day of receipt from Anthem.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, Vendor shall perform a review and provide a detailed response to Anthem related to such complaint, grievance or appeal regarding Vendor Services within five (5) calendar days of receipt of a standard complaint/grievance, within three (3) calendar days of receipt of a standard appeal, and within four (4) hours or less of receipt of an urgent/expedited complaint, grievance or appeal from Anthem. Vendor’s detailed response shall consist of a summary of the case, Vendor’s determination and any other necessary information as outlined in a mutually agreed upon policy and procedure developed by Vendor and Anthem.
Grievance - when receipt of a member issue received by the plan. |
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Grievance received by the plan. |
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Resolution attempted at point of contact. |
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Plan's Customer Service Agent will attempt to resolve the issue at the point of contact and may reach out to the Vendor's Customer Service area. |
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Is resolution is not obtained, forward the Grievance to the MCAG Department. |
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The MCAG team will log the grievance into the plan's database and investigate the matter. |
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Vendor/Delegate is forwarded a copy of the member's complaint. |
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If additional information is needed from the Vendor/Delegate, the MCAG Analyst will call/contact the parties identified on the Vendor/Delegate contact form. |
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Response to request for information (RFI) & medical record request should be faxed to: 0-000-000-0000 [MCAG Medical Records Response Unit] within 5 calendar days for standard requests. *If information is due sooner, the MCAG associate will advise of the revised due date. |
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Once Resolution is obtained, the MCAG associate will notify the member of the outcome. |
On a monthly basis, a summary of CTM’s directly related to Vendor Services will be provided to Vendor and be broken up into two categories: (1) CTM’s solely caused by the Vendor, and (2) CTM’s caused by both Anthem and the Vendor. CTM’s caused by Anthem will be withheld from the monthly reporting to the Vendor. If the Parties do not agree upon the cause of the CTM being the Vendor or caused by Anthem and Vendor, then the Parties will defer to the CTM tracking tool and the entity or entities named by the complainant. Vendor will participate in the Company’s CTM fault assignment process. Without prejudice to the dispute resolution provisions under the Agreement, Vendor shall have the right to participate in dispute resolution meetings with the Company if the Vendor determines that CTM fault assigned is not their responsibility.
In the event a CTM is finally determined to be Vendor Fault or both Anthem and Vendor Fault, Anthem shall receive a service level credit against future invoices under the Agreement submitted by Vendor in the applicable amounts set forth below:
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Per CTM Service Level Credit |
Vendor Fault |
$ $5,000 |
Both Anthem and Vendor fault |
$ $2,500 |
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective duly authorized representatives as of the day and year above written.
AMERICAN WELL CORPORATION
Signature: _s/o Bradford Gay___________________________
Print Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Title: General Counsel
Date:
ANTHEM, INC.
Signature: s/o Kayla Six_____________________________
Print Name: Xxxxx Xxx
Title: Strategic Sourcing Director_________________________________
Date: