Anthony Abate This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. National Underwriter - Book publisher for the insurance and financial services industries.

   www.nationalunderwriter.com/te - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/19/2002   Last Visited: 10/19/2002

   And The Hartford receives workers' compensation medical bills, reports and attachments electronically from providers to the insurer's front-end claims system through a medical bill presentation clearinghouse, P2P Link of Farmington, Conn. "You have to look at ways to take cost out of the system" rather than take care away from the patient, says Anthony Abate, corporate procurement vice president at The Hartford. "Insurers have a great deal of ability to help providers take cost out of the system due to our size and scale. If we can reduce a good percentage of the per-bill processing costs for The Hartford and for the provider by eliminating paper, that's a huge net savings." The insurer reports the P2P Link system has "significantly" reduced the handling, processing, and payment times and associated costs for complicated medical bills, although no specific metrics were available because of the variability among various bills and attachments.
   
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   CCC also owns the data, and we have to pay for the data," explains Abate. "With an [Internet-based] enabler system, we'd buy one system and have eyes into any of the estimating systems. It would be platform-agnostic." One other benefit to a Web-enabled supply chain solution, regardless of the integration on the insurered's end, is the ease of access by providers and suppliers that represent varying degrees of technological sophistication. Additionally, since claims are not always first reported directly to the insurer, providing repair shops and retailers with access to a supply system can speed the claim process.
   
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2. 2. Castek Newsroom - Articles

   www.claimspath.com/AboutCastek - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/1/2002   Last Visited: 2/3/2008

   "You have to look at ways to take cost out of the system" rather than take care away from the patient, says Anthony Abate, corporate procurement vice president at The Hartford.
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   CCC also owns the data, and we have to pay for the data," explains Abate.

3. 3. Technology Decisions, September 2002, Feature Story : Chain Reaction

   www.technologydecisions.com/ba - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/1/2002   Last Visited: 2/28/2005

   "You have to look at ways to take cost out of the system" rather than take care away from the patient, says Anthony Abate, corporate procurement vice president at The Hartford.
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   CCC also owns the data, and we have to pay for the data," explains Abate.