Memorandum To: Dr. Robert I. Grossman, CEO NYU Langone Date: November 7, 2012 Re: Restructuring Health Care Payment and Improving Quality The U.S. devotes a much larger share of its national income to health care than any other country in the world. However, the gross over-spending has not yielded the healthiest population (OECD Health data, 2009). Our economy is continually growing at a lesser rate than healthcare spending. The need to restrain this unsustainable growth in health care costs
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Company Description Affordable Health Insurance is a company offering comprehensive medical, dental and life insurance online. In today’s world where Internet, social media and web surfing has become so globalised the company offers a service online which is easy to access, does not consume much time, offers comparable rates at no cost to the consumer. Having health insurance is important for several reasons. Uninsured people receive less medical care and less timely care
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Most Important Skills to have in Customer Service 1. Patience When a customer contacts you about a problem, they’re normally not happy. So its not a good idea so say something that will make them more unhappy. Watch this. Employee: Thanks for calling Max express, this is Jennifer. Client: Yeah you’re company promised me a delivery on Tuesday and now its Saturday and its still not here. Do you have any idea what kind of problems this is causing me?!! Employee: Maam please, Calm Down.
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Elizabeth Sanders is an 83-year old widow who is a long-time patient at your practice. Her primary insurance coverage is Medicare, and her secondary insurance is Blue Cross-Blue Shield. She has had several visits recently for a variety of ailments. She currently owes the practice $250 for tests that were denied by both Medicare and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Her account is now 75 days old. You spoke to her approximately 2 weeks ago, and she said that she was not financially able to pay. She also stated, “I should
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There are several health insurance companies around the world that have been able to sustain the economic downturn. Just to mention a few of the major health insurance which are: WellPoint, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, Blue Cross Blue Shield and United Healthcare group that have ranked in the top ten list of health insurance. Everybody's talking about health care. It's too expensive; too complex; too exclusive. While there's a lot of debate about what can be done to fix it, there's one thing that cannot
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Thank you for calling Blue Cross Blue Shield of ____ My name iand i will be you licensed sale agent today ,how are you today? ________ told me that you are looking for a _______ is that corrected? _____ told me that you have a question about ______ is that corrected? I will be more happy to assist you Just to inform you it is open enrollment and your effective date would be 1/1/15 if your enroll today Would it be okay if i can ask you some question to better assist you Need Assessment question
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occur to one of their customers. From this analysis they can determine the premiums which must be collected and the claims. Insurance is a very important part of modern life and business. Three health insurance companies: Healthspan, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and Apex. Breaking down plans and talking about what they cover, how much they cost and where they are accepted and attempt to answer the age old question “Is people’s healthcare better depending on how much one pays?” All these packages are
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Hospital Income for All Reasons why Hospital Income should be available for people with chronic health issues. Upon the start of this course my boyfriend’s son got sick. It wasn’t the first time that he’d gotten that sick because he has Sickle Cell Anemia. His deductible was high and he had lots of out of pocket expenses once the hospital stay lasted longer than expected. I began doing research on Hospital Income policies wondering if he would be eligible. Since I work for State Farm, I called
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turned away several times. When I was trying to get coverage from when I moved from Florida to North Carolina and I had called Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC and gave them all of my information and once I told them that I have a pre-existing condition they told me that I could not be covered under a policy and I told them that I have insurance under the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida and they just said that since I was not with the same employer that I could not get coverage. I had tried several
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3. Provider 4. ProviderPhone 5. ProviderAddress [pic] 2. Add CHECK constraints to the INSURANCEINFO to limit Provider column to be within the following group only (United, AvMed, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medicare, Medicare) [pic] 3. Add a column to the PATIENTPER table called AdmissionDate [pic] 4. INSERT at least three rows into each table. 5. Use the proper columns to
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