By Omar Arif
Another reason to work with ClaimDOC…. We run a cash pay program called MedCash that fronts money at point of sale to solve member access issues quickly. Finance just told me we’re in the hole to the tune of 900k at the moment. We’ll get most of it back, the only exception being clients who work with rag tag TPA’s.
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“The only way to win as an employer is to dictate what you’re willing to pay. No one can afford to accept these prices anymore”. – Omar Arif
“Reference Based Pricing might be a solution here, but with systems making demands like this, you can bet they’re not playing ball in the RBP world. Without any oversight, these systems will continue to do as they please, raising rates, demanding status, taking out competition. Plan sponsors lose one of the few impactful strategies available, which is plan design steerage. Which, of course leads right back to the demise of healthcare as hospital systems gobble up what they can to create mammoth, monopolistic systems”. – Julie Wasserman
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Dr. William Gonzaba, affectionately known as Dr. Bill, still loves to see his patients
Bill Gonzaba is one of the most memorable characters I’ve met in my +50 years in the insurance industry. I was fortunate enough to have met Dr. Bill on several occasions at his office on the South Side of San Antonio. His style of leadership was collaborative, ceding his trust to those around him yet always maintaining unspoken yet deferred dominance – Bill Rusteberg
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