November 2004 Newsletter

An Anniversary to Remember

The 100th Insurance Committee Meeting

By: Kathy Novak, Vice President, Partner

It all started on May 14th, 1996. Quadax held its first Insurance Committee meeting. The mission of this group was to share and communicate changes in healthcare insurance billing requirements on a monthly basis. Discussions abound and decisions are made as to how Quadax will react to the ever-changing rules of payers and which payers will be added next as EDI connections.

As the leader of this group, I was excited by the concept. That concept has evolved into the structure we use today. Monthly meetings allow our company to share information at all levels and provide our customers with timely updates. Using a diverse group of sharp individuals from HARP Support, Development, EDI, and HARP Production we are able to look at all angles of our monthly topics.

Over the years we have worked through changes both big and the small:

• Y2K
• HIPAA rules implementation
• ANSI transactions
• Expansion of available EDI payer list from 20 to thousands
• Payer newsletter review from five newsletters to over 50 web sites and listservs today

Although you may not have heard of this behind-the-scenes group before, it has had significant impact on Quadax products and services over the years.

On October 26th, 2004 we celebrated the 100th meeting of this dedicated group of healthcare billing "buffs." My thanks to all who have contributed their knowledge and expertise during the last eight years. Special thanks to Janet Browning for her amazing transformation of this 2+-hour meeting into three pages of concise minutes and action items every month.

Insurance Committee members really do make a difference!