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Health insurers are under increased pressure to improve the way they do business. But inefficient business processes, lengthy claims processing and outdated information management strategies are proving to be formidable roadblocks to demonstrating value to those who purchase health care benefits. To overcome the roadblocks, health insurers must shift from a reactive to a proactive stance by predicting – and responding to – challenges before they occur.
Such predictive power is available to you from SAS. The SAS Business Analytics Framework enables you to gather data from your existing transactional foundation systems and transform it into critical business knowledge.
SAS solutions for health insurance are comprehensive, offering everything you need
to make solid business decisions, align actions with business strategy, improve
your operational efficiency and, ultimately, increase your bottom line results:
Health Insurance Intelligence
Make sense of your complex challenges by analyzing and uncovering cost and
funding balances; understand the factors that affect premium costs and program
rates; align book-of-business and line-of-business profitability; and predict
activities related to fraud before they occur.
Effectively manage clinical risk by uncovering early indicators for illness,
anticipate future utilization of clinical services, improve reimbursements
for contract negotiations, and analyze clinical outcomes and medical expenses
to reward provider performance. With SAS' powerful analytic
capabilities, your organization is better equipped to meet its goals for reducing
costs and raising profitability and return on investment.
Health Insurance Fraud. The SAS Fraud Framework for Health Care goes beyond traditional rules-based fraud detection to offer advanced analytics that enable you to make predictive, accurate claims decisions before claims are paid. In addition, the SAS Fraud Framework for Health Care integrates easily with your claims payment processes to improve recovery and prosecution efforts.
Health and Condition Management. Effectively manage clinical risk and
gain control of high-cost diseases by uncovering early indicators for illness.
With SAS for Health and Condition Management, you can predict risk and optimize interventions
in order to achieve improved outcomes.
Customer Intelligence
Identify your most profitable members and employer groups, determine which
agents bring in the most members and predict which members will leave your
health plan.
Customer Relationship Management. With SAS
Customer Relationship Management solutions, you can conduct more effective
customer interactions, increase awareness, improve targeted marketing and
enhance customer services.
Operational Intelligence
Achieve sustainable operational improvements so you can price services optimally,
enable new business strategies, reduce operating costs, improve performance,
track progress toward achieving organizational goals and meet service level
commitments. With SAS Operational Intelligence solutions for health insurance,
you can improve your IT infrastructure management and enhance operational efficiencies.
Actuarial analysis. Understand trend drivers faster and in greater detail; give your CFO and CEO accurate forecasts for annual business plans; compress your analytic cycle to predict financial performance with greater accuracy; and empower your reserving strategy with reliable IBNR and completion forecasts. SAS Business Analytics for health plans also gives your organization a competitive edge with superior business solutions, proven best practices and unmatched industry experience.
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