News From the Auto Industry

May 27, 2007

Airbag, Air Bag Deployment Black Box Crash Data Retrieval Information for GM, Pontiac, Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, Saturn, and Hummer Vehicles

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Giant health care insurers and mid-size to large corporations can improve profits by recovering money after health insurance claims are paid. Health Decisions Inc. a national leader in group health claim recovery, serves commercial insurers, HMOs, self-funded companies, consultants, brokers, union trusts, and government entities.

Plymouth, MI (PRWEB) October 6, 2004 — A Plymouth company has positioned itself at technology’s edge so it can assist giant health care insurers and mid-size to large corporations improve profits by recovering money after health insurance claims are paid.



Health Decisions, Inc. has the power to review claims already paid and find enough income in unpaid claims to produce up to a 10-1 return for clients.



“Our company is a pioneer as we are the first and only one involved in Post-Payment Administration,” explains Si Nahra, PhD, President of Health Decisions, Inc. of Plymouth. “After everyone else is finished, we apply our expertise, methodology and powerful software tools and dig even deeper to uncover more money for self-insured employers and health insurance companies.”



Post-Payment Administration, akin to unscrambling the egg, finds money to recover after health claims have been paid by insurance companies or self-insured corporations.



Each year Health Decisions investigates over $250,000,000 in claim payments and identifies a recovery potential of 1-3%. Health Decisions’s software is so powerful that it identifies more recovery cases in an hour than manual reviewers can do in a week.



Health Decisions, a national leader in group health claim recovery, serves commercial insurers, HMOs, self-funded companies, consultants, brokers, union trusts, and government entities.



Among its client lists are Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, IBA Health Plan, Compuware, Detroit Diesel Corporation, Elias Brothers, General Motors, Kellogg Foundation, MASCO Corporation, Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Assn., R.L. Polk, Oakwood Health Services, St. John Hospital, the cities of Detroit, Ann Arbor, Pontiac and several school districts.



“When we take a look at the last 2-1/2 years, Health Decisions has recovered in excess of $128,000 for only $52,000 in expense,” says Richard A. Gasowski, director of risk management and safety for Macomb County.



Health Decisions goes much deeper, seeking claims to recover by conducting a review of 100 percent of claims in more than 30 areas to identify and recover claims paid that are not the client’s responsibility. This service routinely produces a positive return-on-investment, says Nahra.



In addition to claim recovery, Health Decisions conducts a formal audit of claim payer procedures and performance and identifies and corrects errors or omissions made by claim payers that are increasing plan costs and legal liability.



Health Decisions also offers specialized staff to conduct a complete Enrollment Verification Survey of all covered persons with the full range of information needed for claim administration and regulatory compliance, including new HIPAA regulations.


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Vetronix crash data retrieval tool (CDR) collects General Motors vehicle crash data via the air bag system SDM.

Nashville, TN (PRWEB) June 15, 2004 — For many years, airplane crash investigators have had the benefit of retrieving data from the flight-data recorder. This information has proven invaluable for helping to determine what happened in the critical time before a crash. In 1997, the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) made the recommendation that vehicle manufacturers and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration work together to gather information on vehicle crashes using onboard collision sensing and recording devices. As a result, General Motors expanded the data downloaded to permanent memory in the air bag sensing and diagnostic module at deployment or in a near deployment collision. Since 1973, when GM first introduced air bag-equipped cars, some crash data has been recorded. As explained in the owner’s manuals of GM vehicles, the amount of recorded data has expanded with time and technology. The capability to record pre-crash data was included with some 1999 GM vehicles following the NTSB’s recommendation. The Vetronix CDR System helps further the NTSB’s recommendation by creating a product that downloads the data stored in recordable airbag modules.



General Motors has authorized Vetronix Corporation of Santa Barbara, California, to develop software, hardware and interface cables to allow the recorded data to be downloaded to commonly used computers. Data useful to researchers and investigators, such as delta-V, driver seat belt usage, and pre-impact data is stored and displayed in an easy-to-read format. This new tool also allows the investigator to input other pertinent information, such as weather conditions, and export the data to a remote database. Interface cables that connect directly to the airbag module are available for vehicles that cannot be powered up after a crash.



“Employers using our services can save 1-3 percent of paid claims by finding facts that were not known when the claims were originally paid,” explains Nahra. “Companies also will improve employee relations by helping them get the full value from all coverages due them. And we will help employers avoid federal and state regulatory liabilities.”



Engine speed (in five one-second intervals preceding impact)

Brake status (in five one-second intervals preceding impact)

Delta-V vs. time for frontal airbag deployment event

Time from vehicle impact to time of maximum Delta-V

Time between near-deploy and deploy event (if within 5 seconds)



More information about GM airbag SDM black box modules and the Vetronix CDR can be seen at this website: http://www.airbagcrash.com



www.airbagcrash.com

800 N. Woodstone Ln

Passenger’s airbag enabled or disabled state (On/Off)

Airbag Warning Lamp status (On/Off)

GM dealers do not use the Vetronix CDR. The GM factory/dealership Tech 2 diagnostic scanner will not collect the crash deployment data.



Air Bag SDM ‘Black Box’ Crash Data Available (depending on year and model)

Vehicle speed (in five one-second intervals preceding impact)

www.airbagcrash.com is one company that currently offers airbag crash data retrieval via the air bag SDM module for General Motors (GM) vehicles. This can only be done using the Vetronix CDR equipment and a PC. The airbag SDM module recorder can offer extremely important vehicle data in the final 5 seconds leading up to an accident event. www.airbagcrash.com offers this information to individuals, insurance companies, rental car fleets, etc.



GM airbag SDM recorded data coverage includes most 1994 and newer Chevrolet, GMC, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac, GM trucks, Saturn, and Hummer vehicles.



Time from vehicle impact to airbag deployment

Maximum Delta-V for near-deployment event

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GMSA markets Opel, Isuzu, Suzuki, Chevrolet and SAAB. The company’s Port Elizabeth based assembly plants manufacture the Corsa, Corsa Utility, Isuzu KB and Isuzu N and F series trucks. Automotive Industries talks to Robert Socia. President and Managing Director of GM South Africa.

AI: Why does General Motors retain an assembly operation in South Africa?

Socia: The component industry shares many of the same strengths as the vehicle assembly industry, such as low utility costs, an established transport infrastructure, etc. Apart from the MIDE a number of government incentives also contribute to the development of the industry. These include: the Skills Support Program, Productive Asset Allowance, Foreign Investment Grant, etc. In terms of the Nelson Mandela Metro, obvious advantages are the close proximity to a port, the emergence of the Coega IDZ, the localization of three major OEMs and also the fact that, the metro has become a catalytic converter hub for export with major overseas suppliers having invested in the region e.g. Coming, Engelhard, Delphi, Umicore, Tenneco to name a few.

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    General Motors in South Africa: General Motors South Africa , a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, is a leading manufacturer in the South African motor industry and falls under GM’s Latin America, Africa, & the Middle East region

    Filed under: After Market Parts — Administrator @ 2:05 am

    AI: Why does General Motors retain an assembly operation in South Africa?

    Socia: The component industry shares many of the same strengths as the vehicle assembly industry, such as low utility costs, an established transport infrastructure, etc. Apart from the MIDE a number of government incentives also contribute to the development of the industry. These include: the Skills Support Program, Productive Asset Allowance, Foreign Investment Grant, etc. In terms of the Nelson Mandela Metro, obvious advantages are the close proximity to a port, the emergence of the Coega IDZ, the localization of three major OEMs and also the fact that, the metro has become a catalytic converter hub for export with major overseas suppliers having invested in the region e.g. Coming, Engelhard, Delphi, Umicore, Tenneco to name a few.

  • Brazil: State of the Industry (presented by the IAB) will be hosted and presented by Mauricio Palermo, Vice President of IAB Brazil. This session brings together leading industry experts from across the Brazilian marketing, media and agency landscape to discuss how digital media and technologies are transforming the business and discipline of marketing communications.


  • The State of Search in Latin America invites you to hear from leading search experts talking about the state of search across Latin America as they provide tips and tactics on how to identify where search marketing fits into the overall marketing mix, as well as ways to maximize search engine positioning and how to calculate ROI.

  • Going forward we will be aiming to further grow our share and in support of this we have implemented GM’s Global Manufacturing System (GMS).This ensures that we operate according to one common global system and that our efforts are geared towards producing high quality products. We have also placed a dedicated focus on improving our levels of service to our customers.

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