Archive for the ‘Medicare Services’ Category
Friday, April 6th, 2012
At Sun Knowledge, we give special emphasizes to claims administration because we know it requires high level expertise, patient centric processes and attention to customer service. Through our services, we guarantee to fulfill all related objectives which a Health firm or TPA aspires for. The important ones are:
- Provide eligible employees, retirees, COBRA continuants, and their eligible dependents with a quality, affordable health care program
- To minimize disruption for current health care program members
- To ensure costs are managed effectively by continuing to take advantage of enhanced cost and utilization management opportunities available in the marketplace while maintaining or enhancing quality
- Provide enhanced communication and enrollment services for benefits
- Responsibly manage taxpayer dollars
Medical Claims Administration
When it comes to Medical Claims Administration, we give you competitive advantage in the form of:
- Provide and/or make available necessary, appropriate, and high quality medical care to each member.
- Provide high quality, efficient program administration and services.
- Provide specific performance guarantees which include financial penalties for non-performance.
- Meet with the appropriate employer’s management staff to review the offeror’s health care program, present the proposed communication material, and jointly establish a preliminary implementation plan, open enrollment program, and schedule.
- Furnish to each employee and retiree a hardcopy or electronic copy benefit booklet outlining and defining all covered services, limitations and exclusions, procedures for receiving services, schedule of benefits, COBRA, HIPAA, and other ERISA plan information requirements.
- Furnish sufficient copies of detailed summary of benefits, limitations and exclusions for each plan offered, and network directories for each eligible employee and retiree during open enrollment periods.
- Provide an identification card to all covered members prior to the effective date of the program.
- Provide a detailed renewal underwriting analysis and detailed utilization data comparing current and prior years.
- Provide a single point of contact responsible for quality control, resolving problems, and expediting services related to the overall performance of the contract.
- Maintain a local or toll-free customer service number for covered members.
- Provide a systematic procedure for appeal of claims, including providing resources for external reviews.
- We maintain systems and procedures necessary or appropriate for the operation of a reasonable and appropriate Utilization Review.
- We provide Claims Processing/Payment Services and systems and procedures, for the appropriate adjudication and payment of all claims for payment submitted to Plan.
- We administer a coordination of benefits program on behalf of you.
- We recommend actions for Government Program Reimbursement such as holding such claim in a pending file, or shall turn the claim if the claim becomes involved in legal action or proceedings under such laws.
- We provide assistance in administration of a grievance and appeal mechanism for Beneficiaries.
- We help in complying with Government Regulation with the requirements of any applicable state or federal statute, ordinance, law, rule, regulation, or order of any governmental or regulatory body having jurisdiction over the Plan.
- We maintain professional liability insurance coverage to insure against any claim for damages arising out of or by reason of any acts or omissions directly or indirectly in connection with participation in Utilization Review, Quality Improvement or Provider Contracting Services.
- We monitor plan eligibility for dependents, retirees, and retiree dependent; automatically notify members and terminate those no longer eligible for coverage.
- We will accept enrollment data via facsimile transmission, in lieu of using an online enrollment system.
- Our team member will be available for in-person enrollment meetings, providing all appropriate hardcopy enrollment materials.
Prescription Drug (PDP) Claims Administration
Apart from the above mentioned Medical Claims Administration services, we also provide interested party with our extra ordinary Prescription Drug Claims Administration. Here, the possible benefits include the following:
- We have networks of Participating Pharmacies for assistance along with Mail Service Pharmacy,
- We perform claims processing services for Covered Drugs dispensed by Participating Pharmacies, Mail Service and the specialty pharmacy.
- We perform a standard concurrent drug utilization review (“DUR”) analysis of each prescription submitted for processing on-line by a Pharmacy in order to assist the dispensing pharmacist and prescribing physician in identifying potential drug interactions, incorrect prescriptions or dosages and certain other circumstances that may be indicative of inappropriate prescription drug usage.
- We provide specialized prior authorization (PA) services according to your needs.
- We process initial “claims for benefits” for Member Submitted Claims and PA requests consistent with the ERISA claims rules.
- We have Call Center facility which is capable of providing 24-hours a day, 7-days a week toll-free telephone and Internet support.
- We also provide clinical, safety, adherence and other like programs.
- We follow stringent Reporting format which can happen on weekly, monthly and annual basis.
- With no additional charge, we will provide regular prescription claims data in their own standard format(s) for disease management, flexible savings account and other “payment,” “treatment” and “healthcare operations” purposes (as defined under HIPAA).
- We provide audit for prescription management services on an annual basis (unless additional audits are warranted).
- We draft initial documents such as the summary plan description, Identification Cards, Enrollment Kits, Covered Individual Reimbursement Forms and Certificates of Creditable Coverage as required under HIPAA.
- We assist in complying with the requirements of any applicable state or federal statute, ordinance, law, rule, regulation, or order of any governmental or regulatory body having jurisdiction over the Plan.
- We maintain professional liability insurance coverage to insure against any claim for damages arising out of or by reason of any acts or omissions directly or indirectly in connection with Utilization Review, Quality Improvement or Provider Contracting Services.
- We monitor plan eligibility for dependents, retirees, and retireedependents; automatically terminate members who are no longer eligible for coverage.
- We will accept enrollment data via facsimile transmission, in lieu of using an online enrollment system. Furnish sufficient copies of detailed summary of benefits, limitations and exclusions for each plan offered, and network directories for each eligible employee and retiree during open enrollment periods.
- Our team will be available for in-person enrollment meetings providing all appropriate hardcopy enrollment materials.
For your entire claims requirement, contact us today..!!
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Drug utilization review is the process of assessment of drugs, consumed by a population, in terms of their efficiency and potential risks, in order to dodge fraud, dangerous interactions and over-prescribing and therefore, inevitable disasters. In every US state, according to the mandates of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, many private drug utilization review boards, which supervise outpatient prescriptions for Medicaid patients, work for health insurance or pharmacy companies.
The Drug Utilization Review program, an inventive and computerized system, not only, puts prescription drugs of Medicare Plan under the microscope, but also, makes recommendations about best prescription drugs, drug problems and drug interactions, which are available to pharmacists and physicians.
The knowledge of the prescribed drugs is of utmost importance. People can easily access thousands of potential drugs in the market. Some random combinations of medications can have an enormously negative impact upon the health of consumers, making them horribly sick. As a result, medical costs spiral out of control. Many people have died an untimely death for consuming prescribed drugs that should not have been prescribed. Consumption of medicines inappropriately can also result in death. In some cases, drug utilization review board urges the pharmacists to speak to people when they are prescribed new medications. Although this will not entirely stop the consumption of potentially hazardous medicines, with a little bit of co-operation from the patient’s end, it will definitely help control the problem.
The Utilization review services include Prior Authorizations, reviewing of set quantity limitations and application of step therapy program. They track, flag and report on prescription drugs that need more scrutiny, thus enabling significant savings for both the member and payer.
All exception requests are processed within a standard time period of 48 hours, whereas expedited ones are processed faster, within 24 hours. The final decision or outcome is usually forwarded to the prescribing physician and pharmacist for their discretion.
Utilization review is the prime source of utilization management, which gauges and evaluates the suitability, aptness, medical need as well as competence of health care services procedures and facilities in terms of the established criteria or guidelines of an applicable health benefits plan. It begets new activities or decisions based upon the scrutiny of a case.
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Medicare Part D plans often require the plan Member (or the Member’s Physician) to secure prior authorization for the use of certain medications.
Prior Authorization is a process that scrutinizes and therefore, optimizes the use of medications that have certain risk factors. In order to obtain a medication that requires a Prior Authorization, certain criteria have to be taken into consideration, before the particular health-plan agrees to pay for the medication or treatment. It is an approval, which can only be authorized by licensed pharmacists, nurses and doctors, issued by the insurance company before equipment /medication is dispatched. Authorizations can take place only after the doctor’s orders and other documentation are reviewed to ensure that a service is medically necessary. It is a conscious effort of health-plans to help their beneficiaries shun medical disasters. Prior Authorization (PA) programs are usually facilitated by pharmacists, supervised by experienced physicians. With restrictive and rigorous formularies and benefit design, the PAR function becomes indispensable, more operative and popular.
1. Prior Authorization Program usually helps cutting the turnover time, as mandated by the CMS
2. For expedited cases, the procedure is accelerated, where authorization can even be procured within 24 hours
In case of appeals against prior authorizations, the Appeals process, usually fast, dynamic and overseen by assorted, board-approved doctors, takes over. It entails preparation of approval and denial letters for the prescriber and the members. It also dispatches provider letters to all prescribers and doles out a report of approvals and denials. The reports can be accessed and used by the Clients to enter the authorizations into their respective system for online adjudication.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Medication Therapy Management services can be extended to prospective patients, who are in dire need of help. They can be spotted by a pharmacist, a physician or any other licensed healthcare professional, the health plan, when medication-related problems surface.
At times, the patients themselves seek medical attention, as soon as they become susceptible to medication-related problems, especially, in the wake of any healthcare setting changes or when they switch physicians. The problems may also appear, if the payer status of a beneficiary changes. These transitions of care pave the way for medication therapy changes, triggered by changes in the patient’s needs or location or resources or his health status or condition, or formulary requirements. Pharmacist-oriented MTM services must primarily dwell on reconciliation of the patient’s medications, thus providing appropriate medication management, during transitions of care. For ambulatory patients, Medication Therapy Management services are usually offered by appointments but, in exceptional circumstances, may also be provided on a walk-in basis.
Medication Therapy Management services, according to the mandates of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, must be delivered by pharmacists in a private or semiprivate area. In other patient care settings- acute care, home care and managed care, these services are dished out in a markedly different environment because of variability in structure and facilities design.
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