{"id":1234,"date":"2013-07-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/healthcare-payer-blueprint_073013\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T11:00:00","slug":"healthcare-payer-blueprint_073013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/healthcare-payer-blueprint_073013\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture, Xerox and Cognizant make the Winners Circle to support October’s healthcare chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"
This October, the Affordable Care Act is poised to disrupt the healthcare industry in seismic fashion, whereupon the entire world of the healthcare payers will be turned on its head:<\/strong><\/p>\n *The traditional B2B model is switching to a B2C model: \u00a0<\/strong>Payers now now have to cater for millions of individuals, in addition to thousands of companies with “cookie-cutter” solutions. \u00a0In effect, they now have to sell to, market to and manage consumers, in addition to their traditional corporate clients.<\/p>\n *Health plans must now being priced very, very differently differently:<\/strong> \u00a0The only variable inputs will be age, geography, family size, and tobacco use, while past history will and pre-existing conditions will no longer be taken into account. \u00a0Millions of new people will be entering the health insurance market, with vastly increased regulation on how payers ‘ revenues can be allocated.<\/p>\n This will matter for everyone<\/em> \u2013 service providers, buyers, and pretty much anyone living in the United States. \u00a0These reforms will affect the healthcare payers the most, as they seek to cope with the monumental challenges needed to improve product operations, engage with the customer differently, optimize processes, and contain not only administrative costs, but medical costs too. \u00a0The three service providers that we found best placed currently to service the healthcare payers are Accenture, Xerox, and Cognizant:<\/p>\n