есть "denial engines"... вот здець поглядите
http://www.fastpitchnetworking.com/pr/p ... N=87925290или здесь...
http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/ama-l ... nding-1101и госпиталям и фармацевтам он совсем не выгоден - им же цену за услуги и занижают... проверяют што к ним бесконечо пациенты не ходят с больнои спинои и прочие схемы...
так часть етого плана - ввести електоронные записи на всех; чтоб точно так же ваше лечение и контролиравать...
Health insurance plans and
government payers are using new data tools to reduce payments to providers by as much as 5-10%. These processes can be invoked before, during or even long after claims adjudication. New research and analysis from Healthcare IT Transition Group targets the defeat of these “denial engines.”
Physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers are engaged in an ongoing battle with health plans over the accurate payment of claims. Most healthcare encounters involve multiple conditions or types of treatment, and these need to be represented by complex combinations of diagnostic and procedure codes. Traditionally, payers have compared these codes to guidelines represented by Medicare’s Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) and their own contract terms with the provider to make adjustments. Providers’ software vendors responded by making sure the outbound claims were consistent with CCI guidelines.
Increasingly, payers are using much more sophisticated data mining tools that analysts have dubbed “denial engines.” These put millions of possible rule combinations, known as “edits,” at the payer’s disposal, allowing them to selectively turn edits on or off to achieve particular payment objectives. Some vendors boast they can be set to retain as much as 4% or more of the payments that would get through traditional edits, and that such levels can be maintained by increasing the strictures, even as providers modify their billing practices over time. For instance, Ingenix boasts that “payers can achieve immediate savings up to 2?5 percent of facility claims stream without renegotiating contracts”. Denial engine vendor TC3 shoots even higher, saying their “loss control technologies” can reward payers by “reducing paid claims by 3-10% annually.”
The suit involves the use of a controversial software program that determined how much doctors should be paid for out-of-network services. It accuses WellPoint of using the program created by Ingenix, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, to artificially lower payments to doctors and therefore overcharge patients for millions of dollars in unpaid claims.