What a pain in the rear. Seeing a lot of errors with physician and hospital network statuses with various carriers. What's the point of having this all-in-one platform if I have to go to each carrier to verify the accuracy of what I'm looking at? I really don't want to port everything over to another system...not that there are that many options. Anybody have tricks to ease this?
Sunfire inaccuracies
- Thread starter FRJ
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MedicareMillennia
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- 26
One of the positives of only selling in a local area, fewer carriers/plans to keep up with and verify. I have no idea how a nationwide call center could possibly give accurate recommendations
Victor Crain
New Member
- 8
I work in 14 states, five of which have state managed exchanges. I have never seen a third party database, including the state databases, what was more than 80% accurate. The carriers blame the third parties for not updating changes promptly; the third parties blame the carriers for not providing updates promptly. This isn't going to change anytime soon. In some states, the geography covered by a carrier or the doctor network are so limited that you can effectively disregard them. Or a company carries an F rating with the Better Business Bureau -- yes, I've seen that. It's a lot of work checking the carrier databases, but you just have to do it right. Morally, if you take on a client, you own them your best. (And there are clients you really don't want; to have a successful business, you need to know how to identify them and politely refer them out.)
Gwen Redington
Expert
ha. since when did a call center worry about that?
Victor Crain
New Member
- 8
Or AI bots, for that matter. The big carriers are looking for ways to reduce people in insurance to boost profits. However, the regulators aren't busting the big carriers; everyone is squeezing the agents.
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- #7
Collectively, we agents seem to put up with a lot of nonsense and crap. Where's the power?
straightnochaser
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- 952
Was this a dual plan?
Nah a PPO plan.
