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I had two LONG phone conversations with Nationwide people today. One was a sales support guy, the other was in UW.
They have all been given layoff notices, most effective in Nov., a few on Jan.1. They can apply to HealthNet but from what I can see not many want to. HealthNet is going to keep the outside sales staff from what I hear. I "recruited" one of the guys I spoke to into talking to Colonial since he is already licensed. Many of the UW people are looking for jobs with the GAs or as PAs or HR in large firms here. No one at NW is happy about how this transition is going. Having had experience with HN before, I'm not surprised. They have the corporate infrastruture from hell... however they claim all their bottlenecks have been eliminated and that they are 'better." It doesn't look like it if this transition is any indication.
The entire NW organization is in disarray with so many people leaving each day (can you blame them?) They have a lot of temp workers (in UW.)
If you have other choices, I think it would be wise not to write their plans until the dust settles. I'm having a devil of a time getting NW's UW to make a final determination on a case. Seems they are waiting on APS, have asked EasyCopy to get the records, but have not followed up such that the case has been pended for a month now. They want ME (or client) to call the doc and get the records. So I did. The point is that I should NOT have to do their work for them... but it was not a big deal. I just want to get the damn case adjudicated one way or the other.
My advice is to write NW only for absolutely clean cases. Anything else is going to face a long, long delay if my experience is any indication of how their process is (not) working.
Al
They have all been given layoff notices, most effective in Nov., a few on Jan.1. They can apply to HealthNet but from what I can see not many want to. HealthNet is going to keep the outside sales staff from what I hear. I "recruited" one of the guys I spoke to into talking to Colonial since he is already licensed. Many of the UW people are looking for jobs with the GAs or as PAs or HR in large firms here. No one at NW is happy about how this transition is going. Having had experience with HN before, I'm not surprised. They have the corporate infrastruture from hell... however they claim all their bottlenecks have been eliminated and that they are 'better." It doesn't look like it if this transition is any indication.
The entire NW organization is in disarray with so many people leaving each day (can you blame them?) They have a lot of temp workers (in UW.)
If you have other choices, I think it would be wise not to write their plans until the dust settles. I'm having a devil of a time getting NW's UW to make a final determination on a case. Seems they are waiting on APS, have asked EasyCopy to get the records, but have not followed up such that the case has been pended for a month now. They want ME (or client) to call the doc and get the records. So I did. The point is that I should NOT have to do their work for them... but it was not a big deal. I just want to get the damn case adjudicated one way or the other.
My advice is to write NW only for absolutely clean cases. Anything else is going to face a long, long delay if my experience is any indication of how their process is (not) working.
Al
