Does CIP Deserve Its LOW CMS Rating?

[wehotex]

It has been many years since I sold CIP and even back then, the rating was low. Whenever I sold it, I wrote the names of the doctors that the prospect was seeing and called them afterwards to verify if they knew about CIP and if they could bill it. Back then (2009), roughly 20-25% would not bill it and some gave me an ear full. It seems like the few that I put on it encountered no issues, but then that could have been because I pre-screened the docs beforehand. Flash forward and CIP still has the low rating. Does CIP deserve the low rating? Do you encounter issues with it in your market?

 

[Bob_The_Insurance_Guy]

Whenever you deal with the Medicaid crowd, and those that serve them, you are not going to get high ratings. These people, and the docs that have to put up with them, like to be heard. That means they like to complain.

Happy docs and members don't complete surveys. Those that bitch do.

Since the Medi Medi crowd is their target market, what can you expect.

 

[Nikita]

It has been many years since I sold CIP and even back then, the rating was low. Whenever I sold it, I wrote the names of the doctors that the prospect was seeing and called them afterwards to verify if they knew about CIP and if they could bill it. Back then (2009), roughly 20-25% would not bill it and some gave me an ear full. It seems like the few that I put on it encountered no issues, but then that could have been because I pre-screened the docs beforehand. Flash forward and CIP still has the low rating. Does CIP deserve the low rating? Do you encounter issues with it in your market?

Yes, lots of problems/issues with CIP in Iowa...don't really want to elaborate but the answer to your question is a definite YES

 

[wehotex]

Whenever you deal with the Medicaid crowd, and those that serve them, you are not going to get high ratings. These people, and the docs that have to put up with them, like to be heard. That means they like to complain.

Happy docs and members don't complete surveys. Those that bitch do.

Since the Medi Medi crowd is their target market, what can you expect.

Yes, but it's not the only plan by far in my market that targets the medi-medis, yet it's the only one that gets tagged with the low rating for all of these years. Not all of the members are medi-medi either.