Sramana Mitra: How many insurance companies are there in the United States? Jason Beans: I don’t know. There are about 150 licensed insurance companies doing workers’ compensation. But that’s only in the States. A lot of the insurance companies are forming captives or off-shores in tax havens like the Cayman Islands or Bermuda. There are
Sramana Mitra: How many physicians do you have in your system right now? Jason Beans: We have, according to our database, more than 500,000 physician locations. Now that’s inflated in my mind, because if a doctor treats at four different locations, each location will be registered. If she is an individual doctor in our group and also practices as a part
Sramana Mitra: When you look around in the healthcare IT space, what do you see in the landscape that is competitive to you, that you’re going to have to be aware of and counter? Jason Beans: I see that it is very competitive. A lot of people trying to solve the same problems as I am.
Sramana Mitra: I guess, what I’m trying to understand is – one of the case studies I know inside out is the Athenahealth story. Their business model is actually very simple. They work on behalf of the physicians, and they have all these rules engines for coding and everything, and they do collections on behalf
Sramana Mitra: What do you think is the core differentiated value in what you do? Is it more the rules engine that helps you determine what is to be approved and what is not to be approved? Jason Beans: That is a differentiator. I wouldn’t say it was the number one, just because if people
SM: Tell me more about how you deliver that service. What do you need in terms of your workforce? What do you tackle in technology? What do you tackle in human resources? JB: It’s a very hybrid model. It’s a half technology, half service model. We have a team of, say, 40 or 50 technology
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