[Ads-l] Medical insurance Kentuckianisms?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/6/2014 01:06 PM, Lisa Galvin wrote:
>It's insurance-ease,  and spelled correctly. I believe it is 
>pronounced the way she pronounced it, industry-wide, more or less.

Perhaps just as much as "de-fen-DANT" is legal-ease.  For "payor", 
the OED makes no distinction, defining "payor" solely as "= payer 
n."  (I must say I've never heard an insurance-er say it in any manner.)

Joel

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>Lisa Galvin
>Shoreline, WA USA
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> > 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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> > 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"?
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> > > 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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