[Ads-l] Medical insurance Kentuckianisms?

[Lisa Galvin]

It's insurance-ease,  and spelled correctly. I believe it is pronounced the way she pronounced it, industry-wide, more or less.
 
Lisa Galvin
Shoreline, WA USA



                                                   

 
> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:49:51 -0500
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> Isn't payor legalese, and not just in Kentucky?
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> DanG
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> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Today I listened to the automated answering voice of a company that
> > assists my medical insurer in determining whether another party
> > should share in payments to cover an accident (such as someone else
> > who was negligent).  The letter I had received was from Louisville,
> > Kentucky.
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> > 1)  Early on she said, with a southern intonation, "We provide
> > subrogation services to your payor [sic]."  What distressed and
> > suffering accident victim these days will know what "subrogation"
> > means?  Why not say "We provide assistance to your medical service
> > provider in determining whether another party may be responsible for
> > some of the costs resulting from a recent accident"?
> >
> > 2)  "Payor" was pronounced "pay-OR", as in "oar/ore/or".  I wonder
> > how it was spelled in her script.  I notice, however, that the OED
> > has one recent, relevant quotation:
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> > 2004   www.gsk.com 8 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) ,   Patients must be
> > paying the full cost of their prescriptions to participate (i.e., not
> > reimbursed by any third-party payor).
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> > Joel
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