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Business Process
Outsourcing
IT is changing the way people do business, and increasingly healthcare
organizations are looking at ways to cut down on costs and increase
efficiency. Time, money, staffing shortages and process automation are
prominent business drivers prompting healthcare organizations to
consider Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) and Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO).
In Healthcare, business process outsourcing is the segment growing
faster than IT services and includes outsourcing call center services (teleservices),
insurance claims processing, process automation, receivables management,
medical transcription, and billing and coding services. Having sold and
rapidly deployed Healthcare BPO solutions that significantly lower
costs, increase operating efficiencies and improve client profit
margins, Chronos Sourcing Inc. specializes in delivering solutions with
demonstrable return on investment (ROI) to its clients. Our
collaborative approach involves closely working with clients to conduct
thorough yet succinct business process flow assessments to quickly
identify areas of strategic (long-term) and tactical (short and
mid-term) improvement and cost reduction, followed by progressively
designing and executing solutions with clear business benefits to our
clients.
Healthcare BPO, Process Automation and Custom Software Application Development:
Chronos Sourcing understands the challenges and business environment driving the
Healthcare Industry. With strong domain knowledge in the US Healthcare sector, we are
uniquely positioned to provide Business Process Outsourcing and Process Automation
solutions to various segments of the Healthcare Industry including Providers, Payers,
Managed Care Organizations, Health Information Services companies, and Billing Services
companies. Focus areas consist of:
Medical Billing, Accounts Receivables Management and Claim Adjudication and Revenue Cycle Management
Business Process Automation
Custom Software Application Development
Diagnosis and Procedure Coding
Medical Transcription and Data Entry
Workflow Design and Implementation
Healthcare Software Design
Business benefits include:
Revenue Enhancement: Streamlined Claims processing and follow-up, resulting in fewer denials,
shorter cycle times and faster Return On Investment (ROI).
Healthcare Expertise: Healthcare compliance processes and a highly trained operations team with experience and certification in Coding,
Medical Billing, and Custom Application Software applications.
Quality Assurance: Development of organizational efficiency and quality awareness through innovative
process improvements, training, metrics and development of customer and employee satisfaction programs.
Call Center Services:
With the cost of new customer acquisition being more than five times the
cost of retaining an existing one, client relationships and satisfaction
are of paramount importance in leveraging each customer relationship
effectively. Customer facing services offerings such as, 24/7 customer
support through voice (in-bound and out-bound calls), e-mail and web
mediums, telemarketing services and telemarketing outsourcing, technical
support services and employee IT helpdesk services are increasingly
being deployed to offer incremental revenue and strategic advantages in
addition to the traditional benefits including cost savings and avoiding
additional investments. Finding the right outsourcing partner to handle
non-core business processes can allow progressive companies the
capabilities to lower costs, execute rapidly and achieve greater
efficiency in shorter life-cycles, while specializing in what they do
best.
Call Center Outsourcing Services available are:
Customer Support Services. Virtual customer service centers
manage customer questions 24/7 via multiple channels including voice,
e-mail and chat. Order status, product and service information, account
verification and customers checking their reservation status are
examples of customer support services.
Telemarketing Services. Telesales and telemarketing outsourcing services can be used for prospecting, up-selling, cross-selling and/or
to complete sales transactions online. Outbound calling services can be utilized to sell wireless services for telecommunication providers,
sell travel packages to home-based customers and to complete assorted post-purchase surveys for multiple industries, including
automotive, electronics and financial services.
Technical Support. These services provide 24/7 technical support and problem resolution for customers, including installation and
product support, start-up support, troubleshooting and usage support
IT Help Desk. IT help-desk services provide
technical problem resolution and support for corporate employees,
including level 1 and 2 multi-channel support across a wide range
of applications.
Our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) services include contact center optimization services such as:
Contact center strategy. Helps formulate contact center strategies
that support their overall business vision and leverage the contact
center as a competitive differentiator.
Contact center consolidation strategy
helps formulate consolidation efforts. It strategically sequences a
definitive course for the organization, and helps to ensure overall
implementation success.
Contact center Road Map / Diagnostic.
Helps clients determine the gap between where their contact center
and delivery channel operations and capabilities are today, and where
they
need to be in the future.
The top reasons cited by companies for choosing outsourcing are
summarized below:
29% - Cutting operating costs
13% - Avoiding needed investment
29% - Focusing on core business
14% - Inability to staff appropriately
14% - Upgrading to current service levels
Key benefits to outsourcing include:
Increased ROI – Higher sales conversion rates.
Significant cost savings, up to 80% in certain cases. Reduced customer
service support costs.
10-12 hour Time Difference - reduced response time, deploy solutions
faster and better use of resources
Enhanced flexibility to manage service peaks and troughs, product
lifecycles
Greater coverage and number of interactions with customers.
Largest population of English-speaking graduates in technical,
marketing, engineering, and medical fields, with majority having
advanced college degrees.
Resistance to Outsourcing
Organizational resistance has been noted as the single biggest impediment to
outsourcing, not only because of skepticism about whether it can work but also
due to the resulting uncertainty and the added perception that outsourcing leads
to job loss.
When done right, outsourcing results in little or no job loss. Changes are
required in the ranks of the technical personnel who can either be transferred
to the outsourcing company or need to be replaced, most likely due to the
company's technology adoption initiatives where some skills become obsolete.
Middle management has several years of accumulated business expertise and has
operational oversight responsibility even after outsourcing. Since they no
longer have to deal with day-to-day technical issues at a detailed level, it
frees up time to interact with business units as well as analyze how the
increased technical resources can be used to impact business positively.
THE BOTTOM-LINE
Outsourcing in the best sense allows companies to operate at a higher level of
revenue without having to see a corresponding increase in operating costs. |
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