January 2025 Meeting Evaluation

"Nursing Careers in the Insurance Industry: Leveraging Medical Knowledge," by Cathy Anner, RN, LNCC, CCM, BA Learning Objectives/Topics: 1. Different job titles across the insurance industry. What's it all about? 2. The "essential credential" for the jobs. Grow your career. 3. Clinical to the 9-5; Plaintiff to defense Process of learning and growth. Cathy has been a nurse for over 35 years. Her experience is in several areas including med surg, orthopedics, psychiatry, regulatory agencies, HMO and indemnity insurance. Earning her nursing degree in 1989 at the State University of New York at Farmingdale she went on to hospital work in the clinical areas above. In 2000 she began regulatory work with surveillance of Managed Care Plans for the New York State Department of Health. Record and document review for calibration with the team on compliance with the State Public Health Law was the focus. After five years her insurance career began with managing cases for a Medicaid HMO based in Brooklyn New York. Appropriate utilization was the focus, and this was based on State and Federal Mandates. In 1995 her case management career started by managing cases for a commercial HMO insurance company. It was during that time she earned her Certified Case Manger (CCM) credential which has been proven valuable to this day in the LNC arena. In 2005 the next and current stop on the journey is indemnity insurance where she gleaned experience in Workers Compensation and is currently in General Liability. General Liability work was the primary reason she attained the LNCC credential. She has been highly enriched by all the experience gleaned on this long and winding journey.