What Difference Did A Year Make?
The LAT released Performance Stats up to mid-year 7 which is current through to the end of September 2022. Together with the LAT’s last update we can now provide a comparison of year over year, with projections through to the end of year 7...
Justice Denied
At the halfway mark of year 6 of the LAT the case disposition rates reflected a trend of concern for all stakeholders. This trend is largely driven by significant productivity decreases in the second quarter of 2021. A dramatic reduction in case conferences held by...
The 86% Solution
Not much has truly changed in the almost 5 years the LAT has been hearing AB disputes. However, one number stands out - the rate of resolution without a decision. The files closed within the LAT without a decision is trending in year 5 to-date at 86%. This represents...
LAT – Inconsistency & The Price Paid
LAT - Inconsistency & The Price Paid By now, you have had a minute to digest the Top 10 Issues at the LAT in 2020. Our 2020 year-end review highlights inconsistencies in the LAT’s interpretations of many fundamental issues. Here we offer potential insight as to...
The Answer Lies Within
Will Files Closed Ever Outpace the Rate of Applications at the LAT? The LAT has released their fiscal year end stats giving us a fulsome view of the LAT’s performance over the past 4 years of adjudicating AB disputes. In comparing 2019/2020 year over year production,...
Justice Delayed…
Justice Delayed... In the first 6 months of 2019 alone, the total number of reconsiderations has increased by 65% with the LAT releasing 65 decisions. The story has been unfolding on whether the LAT was in a position to deliver on their stated mandate, with this spike...
Stem the Tide – Updated LAT Statistics December 2018
Has the LAT reached its tipping point? By year end 2017, we were asking if the LAT was being "overtaken by events" with steady growth in LAT applications outpacing closure activity, resulting in an active caseload of 3,601. Now 9 months later, the trend continues with...
Overtaken By Events – LAT AABS Statistics April 2016 – December 2017
As is the case in any growing proposition, keeping an eye on the business activity and being nimble becomes the modus operandi. This is true of SLASTO’s rapidly expanding AABS service. With its promised goal of expediency and procedural fairness, is the LAT being...
LAT Year 2 – Have We Settled In?
At the close of 2016, the LAT had released a total of 45 decisions, and by the end of 2017 that number grew to 413, demonstrating the expediency of the LAT and the rate at which information is becoming available. 84 decisions have already been released to date in...
Should you be looking for something more than free?
I often get asked why inHEALTH has gone to the trouble of building the LAT Compendium, especially when the LAT decisions are available for free. In response I ask, how much time does it take to research and find the most relevant and meaningful...
2017 – A Year in Review at the LAT
As we round up 2017, there have been a total of 300 decisions released. The graph above reflects an empirically collected analysis of for/against outcomes of all decisions released by the LAT. 60% of the decisions were in favour of insurer, while 37% of the decisions...