Real-time claims adjudication is a big component of his proposals.
Nonetheless, some large insurers, led by Humana, have been pushing the rest of the industry to adopt real-time claims adjudication.
Instant processing has been discussed in the health care industry long enough that it has acquired a formal term: "real-time claims adjudication".
Marylou Bailey, a health industry expert at Accenture, the management consulting company, says the principal precondition for adoption of real-time claims adjudication is to have doctors use electronic medical records — and to enter the data as they see patients.
Instant processing has been discussed in the health care industry long enough that it has acquired a formal term: "real-time claims adjudication". But progress toward universal adoption has been slow.
On this week's episode of "Real Time," Maher claimed to have found yet another secret video of Romney saying some questionable things at a dinner party before playing one of the most famous scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 thriller "Shadow Of A Doubt".
As if it was not unprecedented enough for a head of state to be doling out soccer advice in real time, the coach claimed to receive the assistance "using mobile phones that are not visible to the naked eye".
"It would be as if the helicopters were flying off the embassy, except in real time, while we're claiming to be victorious," Joel Charny, of Refugees International, one of the most vocal advocates of the cause, told me.
It will offer three million members "real time access" to claims information later this year.
Electronic health records vendor athenahealth can track the flu almost in real time, based on claims.
