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
- Customer Servcies & Grievenances Management
- Insurance Business Development
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; B.Com, B.A., B.B.A. and other non-science streams.
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
- New India Assurance
- 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