4 Quick Tips to Get Adjusters to Follow Account Handling Instructions

A well-done set of account handling instructions can be the very foundation on which a highly successful employer and claims handling organization can work together as a partnership to drive positive injured worker outcomes and drive down workers’ compensation costs. Hello, my name is Michael Stack and I’m the CEO of AMAXX. While that statement is true about the account handling instructions, if they’re not followed, they’re not worth the paper they are printed on. If they’re not followed, they are not worth the paper they are printed on. So, the question then becomes, if you put in the time to create this great set of beautiful account instructions that no one is following, what good are they?

Adjusters Need to Follow Account Instructions

And then the second question is, how do you actually get adjusters to follow those account instructions? I’m going to give you a couple of quick tips here. To dial into some of this mindset of how to approach this and how to make them just that more effective so they can, in fact, be that foundation which we talked about earlier.

So I want to give you three quick tips here about how to design these and then how to get cooperation from those adjusters. Three things you want to make them clear, you want to make them concise. And number three, you want to make them easily understood, clear, concise and easily understood.

Many companies will have 10, 20, 30, 50, or 60 pages worth of account instructions. And when you are the one that wrote them and participated in writing them and you look at them and you’re overwhelmed and have a difficult sometimes understanding what the heck is in those, the chance of your adjuster team, being able to pick them up and understand and be able to execute on them effectively is very, very low.

Clear, Concise, and Easily Understood

So make them clear, make them concise and make them easily understood. When you’re designing those, take a look at what you have. If it’s this thick, you’re not going to be effective and you need to dial that in to sharpen it up and you need to take another look at it with these three things in mind.

And then the other question on this is if you are wanting to get participation from your adjuster team when you’re designing this, ask for their input, ask for their input. When you are designing these and finalizing them, if you can get some cooperation in the beginning of this partnership from that claims handling team, when you’re designing them, clear and concise and trying to make them understood, maybe there’s stuff that you think, Oh, that’s obvious as can be. But to them it just doesn’t, it just doesn’t make a lot of sense in how we would actually function.

Work Successfully Together

Get that input from your claims handling team, dial these things in together, and then you can build that partnership together and work successfully together. And again, my name is Michael stack. I’m the CEO of AMAX. And remember your work today in workers’ compensation can have a dramatic impact on your company’s bottom line, but it will have a dramatic impact on someone’s life. So be great.

Author Michael Stack, CEO Amaxx LLC. He is an expert in workers’ compensation cost containment systems and helps employers reduce their workers’ comp costs by 20% to 50%. He works as a consultant to large and mid-market clients, is a co-author of Your Ultimate Guide To Mastering Workers Comp Costs, a comprehensive step-by-step manual of cost containment strategies based on hands-on field experience, and is founder & lead trainer of Amaxx Workers’ Comp Training Center .

 

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