Overview Of Patient Advocacy from The Karis Group

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Introduction
Who is The Karis Group?
Patient Advocacy
What is Patient Advocacy?
Video Introduction
How do your members obtain service?
What can your members expect?
What can you expect?
Conclusion
Contact information and next steps
Agenda
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The Karis Group is an Austin, Texas professional services firm that has been in business since 1996.
We contract with benefit plans to help their members who incur large self-pay balances.
We work with clients nationwide, ranging from 1,000 members to over 50,000
We work for the member, mediating and advocating on their behalf to obtain the best resolution available for the self-pay portion of their medical bills.
Every month, we work with hundreds of members on thousands of bills, saving members/clients over two million dollars a month.
Who is The Karis Group?
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What is Patient Advocacy?
We mediate
Between patients and providers regarding patients’ bills
We educate
Patients on their options
We advocate
On behalf of patients while respecting providers
We pursue
Medicaid and charity care qualification
We negotiate
Discounted settlements and payment plans
We communicate
Consistently with patients, providers and you, keeping everyone informed about the status, next steps and the results
Note: Karis does not perform price comparison, scheduling or steerage services.
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How do your members obtain service?
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Average savings of more than 30% per bill
Overall savings of more than 50% on total bill dollars*
We’re successful in gettinga reduction on 3 out of 4 bills
Average case takes us 40-60 days to complete
*For example, a member may have a $100 and $10,000 bill. We may save 5% on the $100 bill and 55% on the $10,000 bill, resulting in an average savings of 30% per bill. The total dollar savings though would be $5,505, so over 50%.
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What others are saying
“Saving our enrollees well over 4 million dollars this year,we consider you a big reason for our success”
“I owe you and your organization such a great debt of thanks”
“I cannot imagine having worked with anyone more caring, understanding or courteous”
“I literally cried when I heard that The Karis Group had managed to get my bills reduced”
“You made the healing process so much easier”
“Saying thank you would be completely inadequate”
“You lifted the burden from us”
“Prompt and measurable results”
“We appreciate the courtesy and responsiveness to our enrollees and staff.”
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We make healthcare work. For everyone.
Contact Information & Next Steps
We hope this presentation has proven helpful as you seek to understand more about Karis and our services. If you have not already done so, we encourage you to view the short introductory video that is available on our web site at: http://www.thekarisgroup.com/Services/Patient_Advocacy/Video.html
We’re confident that the benefit plan you’re selling would be even stronger with the inclusion of Patient Advocacy and we would appreciate the opportunity to continue the discussion.
Please feel free to follow-up with your benefit supplier or contact us directly by emailing info@thekarisgroup.com or calling 512.292.9560.
3755 S Capital of TX Hwy. Ste 240, Austin, TX 78704
www.thekarisgroup.com
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