Case Study
Claims Pend Reduction
PROBLEM STATEMENT A large health insurance carrier was receiving approximately 22,000 claims per day, totaling approximately 5.5 million per year in their Maine office. Fifteen to twenty percent of the daily claims (roughly 3,800) required manual intervention to adjudicate, meaning they were “pending.” Each time a claim was pended, it required extra handling, at an average cost of $2.00 per claim. The insurance provider could not expect to en