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Expanding UM with Clinical BPM

HealthHelp, WNS’s clinical solution, is expanding our existing utilization management solution to include additional Business Process Management (BPM) models designed to support health plans where they need resources in their utilization management (UM) as well as their care management (CM), and disease management (DM) programs.

With over two decades of clinical program and BPM expertise, the ideal place for product expansion was additional integration of BPM models within health plans existing clinical workflow processes. Adding flexible models enables plans to enhance and scale operations without replacing existing tech and people.

“Our expanded BPM solution allows health plans to leverage our expertise in a way that supports what they have already established,” said George Gjermano, Senior VP of Product at WNS/HealthHelp.  “We saw the need to provide this additional flexibility for our clients that desire to grow and adapt their clinical programs within their existing culture.”

Our expanded services are uniquely designed to meet health plans where they are in their growth journey.  We also continue to offer our fully delegated and shared utilization management programs.  In total, WNS/HealthHelp clinical solutions can now be categorized as follows:

  • Our Clinical Experts, Our Platform – Our intelligent UM platform and clinical team offer fully delegated UM programs to payers like genetic testing, cardiology, musculoskeletal, oncology, and radiology.
  • Shared Payer and HealthHelp / WNS Clinical Experts, Shared Platform – Our intelligent UM platform can be integrated into payer workflows.  Our clinical team as well as payer clinical teams share the same process environment and collaborate on UM programs.
  • Our Clinical Experts, Your Platform – payers who prefer to keep their current clinical platforms and processes, can access our skilled clinical and non-clinical experts to supplement their existing teams or processes around UM, CM and DM. This includes resources to support intake, clinical review, provider and member services, care management, and disease management.

About WNS

As a Business Transformation and Services partner, WNS works with marquee brands across industries, solving operational challenges and driving strategic growth journeys. Our collaborative patient care solutions – led by industry, analytics and digital – enable healthcare companies to navigate a changing, regulated and cost-intensive landscape. Our Healthcare BPM services in the payer, provider and life science segments encompass claims, revenue cycle management, healthcare analytics and more. Our evidence-based clinical decision support system lets us evaluate the latest advancements to drive quality care at low costs.

About HealthHelp

HealthHelp, a unit within WNS, is a trusted healthcare advisor for health plans’ clinical programs. Our unified suite of solutions simplifies medical complexity and workforce challenges, and enhances provider relations and member journeys. Our uniquely designed UM and clinical solutions were developed to fit into health plans’ existing clinical programs to advance outcomes and success. We work in partnership to understand health plan commercials and Medicare clinical programs, and determine where our solutions can advance outcomes and lower cost. There is no one size fits all, and we know how to build the best solution for a specific health plan’s needs.

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