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Case Study
Providing voice & non voice processing for a large US healthcare company
 
 
Customer
A large US Healthcare Company with nationwide operations, handling more than 17 million medical members.

 
Drivers
The customer was looking at improving its profitability and productivity using offshore outsourcing. The key drivers for this decision were:
Reducing costs per completed case
Ensuring better turnaround time for each case
Harness human potential - high emphasis on customer service abilities
Resource availability – scalability
 
Solution

Both voice and non voice processes were identified by the client for outsourcing. The non voice processes included the client’s medical billing processes i.e. Claims Data Entry, Claims Pre-Processing and Claims Processing (Adjudication) for Medical, Hospital and Dental claims. The voice processes included inbound customer care.

A phased solution was developed. Initially the three identified processes were migrate to India. A pilot team of 20 personnel including 15 process agents were trained at the client location to understand the complex processes. Members of this team would be responsible in training the batch of 300 FTE’s during the ramp up phase.

Some of the CPMs to be monitored are manual adjudication rate, % Claims Inventory, Productivity (Claims/Examiner/Week), Payment Accuracy- Large Claims, Claims Payment Accuracy, etc.

 
Benefits
Cost advantage – Upto 50 % reduction in costs
130% claims processes per FTE compared to US operation
Quality SLA in the range of 98-99%
Faster ramp up time
 
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