Insight into the Incident Reporting Process

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April 24th, 2014

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The companies providing full-cycle claim and incident reporting solutions help insurance carriers, self-insured companies, third party administrators and managed care organizations to improve their productivity and reduce costs. Cost-effective insurance
claim reporting management depends upon the efficiency of collecting accurate information for the first time, when the incident occurs. The incident reporting process includes the following steps:

  • Analysis of the current process:

The company uses the best practices to make a complete and fully organized report providing various reporting channels such as telephone, e-mail, fax and even electronic file
submission. They respond quickly to critical incidents and prepare customized plans specifying data collected and formats of reports, detailed recipient notification and other vital details.

  • Reporting of the incident:

The company’s specialists are available 24/7, 365 days a year for the first notice of loss to handle worker’s compensation, short-term and long-term disability claims. They develop a step-by-step documentation of all records to provide a complete audit trail for every type
of contract received.

  • Converting claim reports into actionable information:

After intake of necessary information, the company helps close claims quickly by providing essential services. Some of these services include triage to ensure escalation of critical situations, performing medical coding, duplicate checking to flag matches, quality assurance reviews, follow-up completion of claims and many more. Claim number assignment is also done to track notices from the company according to your rules.

  • Expediting completed reports to key recipients:

The incident reporting process does not end at a claim’s closing, but also includes expedition of completed reports to government agencies in formats like EDI, mail, text message, phone or e-mail. The insurance claim reporting services provider maintains all
current state FROI for worker’s compensation and performs all state filing procedures of FROI and subsequent reports of injury and medical bills.

  • Managing risk effectively:

Complete and timely incident reporting results in reduced claims paid out, lower claim handling expenses, and decreased costs. A complete overview of your organization helps to identify and manage risks more effectively.