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How Your Service Reps Can Maximize the Calm Before the Storm
In our world of healthcare insurance, we know the storm is coming for our customer service teams. It’s calm right now, but the craziness is not too far in the future. The smart, seasoned carriers are evaluating their approach right now and making sure they’re maximizing their efforts to be as ready as possible for the start of the year.
Think Differently to Get Game-Changing Results
If you’re looking for a way to make the upcoming year’s Q1 influx of service calls a success, you simply can’t afford to sleep on the job right now. Q3 and Q4 are incredibly important times to be building up your plan to succeed. We know how important a proactive approach can be, but we’ve also seen it with the carriers we work with.
The Perfect Customer Service Duo: Humans AND Technology
We live in a world today where we straddle the line between tech and people. And while many people are trying to lean one direction or the other, at Sensentia, we’ve realized the two are inseparable! We call this the one-two punch in customer service: you need tech for the humans, and the humans work better with the tech!
Cue the Confetti. The New Year’s Customer Service Just Got Better!
By taking action now to employ tools like ServiceSense, you can be ready for the 2025 customer service season. We don’t want to put the rush on you, but we also know there’s necessary time to build out a setup that works best for you, as well as time to test and train your teams. If you want to improve your service metrics for the 2025 year, now is the time to get those foundations in place with the help of ServiceSense.
Are We Using AI in the Right Way?
We shouldn’t be looking for AI to replace humans, but instead enhance humans. AI provides some immense value for us in the world of customer service, but let’s be very clear: there’s something intrinsically valuable about a real, live human being. So, what’s AI’s role? It’s to enhance our abilities as humans to provide that customer service.
The Power of Plain English in Healthcare
But, almost anyone can understand why it makes sense to simplify the process. When you do so, you get from confusion to clarity much faster. You have faster calls with less frustration for all involved. You create confident consumers who know they are using the right product, and you have better metrics all around for your customer service team.
The Calm Before the Storm: Customer Service in Healthcare
We all know what’s coming after the new year, and at the end of the year, call centers are experiencing the calm before the storm. We all know the influx is about to come in just a few short weeks where customers have questions…and LOTS of them..The big question everyone is asking is if their team is ready.
Is Your Customer Service Team Ready for January 1?
The rumblings are all off in the distance. Right now, call centers are all focused on hitting sales targets, but as soon as the new year hits, this shift quickly moves to servicing these new customers. There’s a huge influx about to hit. We know it’s about to hit and we’re all doing our best to be prepared. It’s the calm before the storm!
Artificial Intelligence: The Secret Sauce for Improving Medicare Member Satisfaction and CAHPS Scores
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that Medicare Advantage (MA) Star measures are shifting and will be heavily weighted toward member experience. For 2021-2023, the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey.