title: Managing loss adjustment expenses: strategies for health care risk managers.
abstract: Like most businesses, adjusting companies are not charitable organizations. They are entitled to a reasonable profit, which the risk manager should not begrudge. As a buyer of adjusting services, a risk manager with an inordinate obsession with slashing adjusting bills can destroy the goal of high-quality service. It is best for risk managers to pick and choose the areas for cutting adjusting expenses. To an extent, health care risk managers should view payment of high-quality adjusting services as an investment, with the payback being money saved by fighting fraudulent, exaggerated, and questionable claims.
authors: K M
authors: KM
authors: Quinley
mesh_terms: D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D007345:Insurance Claim Review / Q000191:economics*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States