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WellPoint Cares About Your Health, Sort Of
Posted by ueberbill
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| WellPoint, our nation's largest health insurer (motto: Don't Get Sick, Jackass), has come up with an extremely underwhelming scheme to get all of its 42,000 employees jazzed up 'bout patient health. They are tying annual bonuses to certain quantifiable aspects of their customer base's health. Sounds great, right? Well, sort of. |
They are tying FIVE PERCENT of the annual bonuses to patient health. That means if all of their patients DIE and their average annual bonus is $5,000, then employees stand to lose $250 (enough to cover their own premiums for a month or two). Granted, it's a decent idea, it just doesn't go nearly far enough. How about every time a WellPoint patient gets denied coverage for a lifesaving operation and then DIES, you shoot one employee in the face? Or if WellPoint cancels a policy for a typo on the application, then a carefully selected group of former WellPoint customers gets to hunt down a WellPoint VP for sport? Discussing the "innovative" approach, Dr. Sam Nussbaum, WellPoint's Executive VP (lock and load, doc), says, "It's basically all or nothing for our company this year, we're either going to achieve it or we're not going to achieve it." What the hell does that mean? |
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Wow, 5%
Posted by wizeGurl on 2007-04-03 11:22:11 | | I like the way you think. We should try those kinds of incentives at all health insurance companies. We'd be a healthier nation. |
| Posted by Pile on 2007-04-03 11:30:01 | | Yea, I like it. |
| Posted by Goumindong on 2007-04-04 06:41:23 | The Skeptic in me says:
"Unfortouantly the other 95% of the bonus is still directly tied to how much money you make the company by rejecting claims.
A clever policy to cut bonuses by 5%." |
That's no skeptic
Posted by wizeGurl on 2007-04-04 11:58:52 | | That's clear-eyed realism. |
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