[Ads-l] Medical insurance Kentuckianisms?

[Laurence Horn]

It is a helpful practice.  Maybe I'll try to introduce advis-OR in an academic context, for someone's official dissertation advisor, rather than merely a faculty member who gives them advice.  My quibble with defend-ANT is that it seems like it's supposed to contrast with something and I can't figure out what.  (Public) defend-ER, maybe?

LH

On Nov 6, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.)
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> Joel
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>> Lisa Galvin
>> Shoreline, WA USA
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>> > Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:49:51 -0500
>> > From: thegonch at GMAIL.COM
>> > Subject: Re: Medical insurance Kentuckianisms?
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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.
>> > >
>> > > 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:
>> > >
>> > > 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).
>> > >
>> > > Joel
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