Friday, September 7, 2012

AMA 2011 National Health Insurer Report Card

Published by the AMA (The American Medical Association), the 2011 National Health Insurer Report Card is provided as a source for health insurance claims processing timeliness, accuracy, and transparency.

The report card  is broken down for the following health insurance companies (Aetna, Anthem, CIGNA, HCSC, Humana, Regence, UHC, and Medicare) in these categories:
  • Payment Timeliness
    • Payer claim received date, first Remittance response time
  • Cash Flow
    • Cash flow analysis, % of claim lines paid $0, EFT adoption rate, EFTs still receiving checks
  • Accuracy
    • Allowed amount, Contracted fee schedule match rate - major CPT code categories - match rate by state, First ERA accuracy
  • Prior Authorization
    • Prior authorization frequency
  • Claim Edit Sources and Frequency
    • Source of payer, Total number of claim edits
    • % of total claim lines reduced to 0 (disclosed claim edits, undisclosed claim edits, disclosed and undisclosed claim edits)
    • % of edited claim lines reduced to 0 (undisclosed claim edits)
  • Denials
    • % denied, Reason codes, Remark codes, % of reason codes reported with remark code
  • Improvement of Claims Cycle Workflow
    • CORE certification, Prior authorization, Claim acknowledgement.
To view and download the 2011 National Health Insurer Report Card, please click this link: 2011 National Health Insurer Report Card