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Having worked for years on both sides of the Provider/Payer spectrum, it has always surprised me how little each side knows about the other when it comes to the medical billing and payment, especially with hospital bills. Usually when I speak with colleagues in the Insurance industry they have lots of opinions about hospitals and […]

  Throughout my career as a managed care professional in the workers’ compensation industry, I have had the privilege of working with insurance carriers, third party administrators, bill review companies and medical providers alike. I have seen many innovative and successful payment mechanisms bring speed and efficiency to an administratively bloated and vastly outdated work […]

Occasionally, I will get an email or a phone call from a VP of Revenue Cycle or a hospital CBO Manager asking me to help them find their state’s workers’ compensation fee schedule. I do my best to point them in the right direction, but more often than not I will try and better understand […]

As a consumer, when was the last time you were wowed by someone selling you a product or providing you a service? Having a hard time thinking of one? I can recall the last time I was truly wowed. I was looking to trade motorcycles. I found the exact bike I wanted at both my […]

Scaling a business is hard. If it was easy, all businesses would skyrocket over $10M in annual sales, but actually less than 1% of businesses ever achieve that level. If you want to scale a business, you are going to need a plan, and what better way to start planning than by borrowing a good […]

I am often asked what I look for in a Workers’ Compensation Specialist, and this isn’t always an easy question to answer. So, I attempt to simplify it by thinking of what I look for in a pair of good boots. Some questions that I immediately begin to ask myself are: Are they dependable? Do […]

In 2011, the leadership team at EnableComp met to develop our first mission statement and core values. We believed our mission (what we do) and core values (what we believe) were fundamental to creating the culture we desired and propelling the growth we required. We find most organizations have a mission statement and a set […]

#ipackedashoebox – actually we packed a lot of them! Each quarter (and sometimes more frequently) our Charitable Giving Committee, comprised of employees and management across the company select a charity, volunteer event or cause to support. Charitable giving activities are a huge part of who we are as an organization because supporting communities in need […]

Most hospitals that I encounter have at least a few Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) Network contracts that include workers’ compensation. Some have dozens. These contracts range from super simple 1-page Letters of Agreement, to massively complex multi-line managed care agreements. Hospitals typically devote staff to developing and managing these contracts, but just as is true […]

As the Thanksgiving holiday rapidly approaches, it’s a time for us individually to reflect on our blessings and remember what we are thankful for. Like you, I will take the time to do that in the coming days. If individuals can be thankful, why can’t companies be thankful too? Here are four things EnableComp is […]