POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HEALTHCARE INSURANCE MANAGEMENT
With 100% Assured Placement Support
Objective
To
provide professional training, technical competence, insurance
knowledge and management skills to doctors and paramedics from
mainstream and all other allied medical fields. The program would equip
all the candidates with relevant knowledge and skills to ensure instant
absorption to the work culture with efficient handling and execution of
assigned job profiles in the insurance sector.
Placement Support
All
successful candidates would be provided 100% assured placement support.
Starting salaries in the industry are between Rs.1.75 to Rs.3.5 lakhs
per annum, with strong professional growth.
Opportunities in the Indian Healthcare Insurance Industry
The healthcare insurance industry today is over Rs.7,000 crores with a
compounded growth rate of approx. 37% between 2008 and 2009. The market
penetration is little over 2 percent of the total population in India.
However, as a result of changing socio economic demographics, rapid
growth of private healthcare industry and opening up of the healthcare
insurance sector the sector this area growing at a rapid pace.
By the year 2015 Indian healthcare insurance industry would be worth
Rs.60,000 crores. The current growth is creating thousands of new jobs
each year.
With
the launch of the new Rashtria Swasthya Bima Yojana initiative by the
Government of India, the healthcare insurance sector would grow in a
major way.
Key market drivers area:
- Increasing awareness of health insurance
- Rising healthcare costs have increased need for health insurance
- Fast changing demographic profile of the consumer class
Retariffing of the general insurance industry - Rationalization of premium rates
- Favourable foreign investment policies
- Introduction to Insurance – Health & Life; Scope & Future
- Health Insurance Underwriting
- Health Insurance Claims Management
- Health Insurance Strategic Management
- Health Insurance Legislation, Regulations & Medico Legal Aspects
- Health Insurance Distribution and NSP
- Audits & Investigations
How this is to be done?
All
participants would be subjected to preliminary screening to assess
their existing knowledge base. This would be followed by a well thought
out and structured training program. The group would be trained and
coached to get relevant medical knowledge, insurance concepts and
management skills.
The key highlights of this course would be:
- Practical training with
medical system knowledge in context of the health insurance sector will
be given. An introduction to different type of insurance documentation,
forms and other relevant miscellaneous documents with professional
relevance will be taught.
- This will simultaneously be
complemented with separate programs with medical knowledge with
specific focus and stress on integrating it with relevance to health
insurance specific perspective.
- Every training module
completion will require submission of an assignment answering specific
questions and mandatory exams with attainment of 70% as qualifying
criteria.
- This entire exercise will be summed up with advanced
knowledge and practical training with regards to insurance related
operational, managerial, marketing, distribution and product
development.
- This entire program would be executed with audio
visual aids with specifically designed insurance related case scenarios
pertaining to medical aspects of insurance companies their underwriting
and claims guidelines. This training will be inline with international
standards and perspective of world health and life insurance, and not
just be specific to the Indian scenario only. By amalgamating the
global insurance concept of life, general and health insurance in this
program we intend providing extensive reach and universal acceptability
to all the participants so that they can venture out in the
international insurance market with ready acceptance and approval after
being equipped with our said course.
What would an applicant achieve?
- Globally markets are
getting equipped to deal with the growing medical insurance awareness
and the demand for quality healthcare facilities. There has been a
significant increase in number of health and general insurance company
and TPAs. This has significantly increased the demand for insurance
professional with medical and paramedical educational background.
- The
health insurance market is still gearing up/learning to respond to
provide controlled and measured access to affordable quality healthcare
to the insured masses. To efficiently carry out the different roles and
positions in the insurance field the number of health insurance
professional is required in different fields has been persistently
going up
- All students would become well trained professionals
after completion of the program successfully. Followed by having
received the distinguished degree will definitely stand very good
chance and will have great scope of getting excellent insurance sector
job offers in the variety of fields good designation and
remunerations/pay packages.
- This is one of its kind health insurance course designed to cater and fulfill specific needs of the health industry sector.
Potential Employers
There
are several potential employers who require professionals with the
above skill set in healthcare insurance. These consist of:
- Third Party Administrators
- Corporate Insurance Agencies and Brokers
- Insurance Risk Management Companies
- Financial Services Companies
- Knowledge Processing Organizations & Underwriting firms
- Corporate Hospitals
Duration : 6 months – weekend program. Classes would be held on Sundays.
Fees : Rs.100,000/-, including Laptop. Bank loan facility available. Fee payable in installments.
Eligibility
: MBBS, BDS, BHMS, BAMS, BUMS, BPT, M.Pharm; Graduates & Post
Graduates in Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology; Biotechnology
and other science qualifications.
Certificate : Upon
completion Certificates would be awarded jointly by Mediminds and
Cliniminds jointly. Cliniminds is a leading healthcare educational
institution with national and international presence.
Types of Jobs
: Associate; Team Member; Team Leader, Deputy Manager, Project Manager,
Manager, Deputy General Manager, General Manager, Vice President,
President, COO, CEO, Managing Director. Key Departments are : Service
Providers Network; TPA; Claims Management; Underwriting; Risk
Management; Medical Affairs; Operations; Project Management; Analyst;
Medical Billing; Investigations; Legal Affairs, Frauds &
Misconduct; Quality Assurance and Auditing.
Commencement Date : 23 January 2010
Lead Faculty:
Dr Pawan Kumar Raithwal
is an MBBS doctor from Delhi University with post Graduate Diploma
hospital management. His medical knowledge and experience has been
complemented with overseas insurance qualifications which include --
Diploma in financial services life insurance and general insurance. He
served in the paramilitary force as a senior medical officer in-charge
battalion medical setup. He has worked in the health insurance company
in New Zealand as medical underwriter for many years. Currently he is
working as General .Manager claims and cashless for one of the
countries leading TPA.
Dr Rajeev Sharma, MBBS from
Delhi university holding& Post Graduation in one of the specialized
branch of legal medicine and toxicology from Delhi university. He&
has a vast experience of working globally as consultant and medico
legal expert across& some of the premier& government and
private hospitals and organizations . He has also served as a teaching
faculty for many government and private medical colleges. He has been
involved in the insurance industry for several years catering to
different verticals like medico legal, Investigations and Auditing and
Network administration of Pan India hospitals. His medical knowledge
and experience has been complimented with overseas management
qualification, MBA, from one of the premier league institute in
strategy and planning from University of Strathclyde, UK. Currently he
is working as Senior manager and Head of the department Network
services for one of the country’s leading TPA.
Key Health Insurance Employers
- Oriental Insurance
- National Insurance
- United Indian Insurance
- ICICI Lombard
- Reliance
- Bajaj Allianz
- Start Health & Allied Insurance
- Apollo DKV
- LIC
- Dawn Services
- Parekh Health Management
- Mediassist India
- MD Healthcare Services
- Paramount Health Services
E Meditik Solutions - Heritage Health Services
- Universal Medi-Aid Services
- Focus healthcare
- Medicare TPA Services India
- Family Health Plan
- Raksha TPA
- TTK Healthcare Services
- Anyuta Medinet Healthcare
- East West Assist Pvt. Ltd.
- Med Save Healthcare
- Genins India
- Alankit Healthcare
- Health India TPA
- Good Healthplan
- Vipul Medicorp
- Park Mediclaim
- Safeway Mediclaim
- Anmol Medicare
- Dedicated Healthcare
- Grand Healthcare
- Rothsshield Healthcare
- Sri Gokulam Health
Contact To:
info@mediminds.com