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May of 2022, Medicare & Medicaid Services mandated specific compliance and recording changes that go into effect on October 1st 2022. During the enrollment period, Medicare & Medicaid Services will require all supplemental insurance sellers to record and retain all marketing and sales conversations for 10 years.

Under the Affordable Healthcare Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ruling progresses its strategic vision of expanding access to affordable health care and improving health equity. The ruling will affect and support the 53 million Americans enrolled in Medicare health or drug plans and their healthcare providers.

“This spring, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Final Rule CMS-4192-F. Part of this ruling requires Third Party Marketing Organizations (TPMO) (TPMO definition includes organizations and individuals, including, independent agents and brokers) to record all sales and marketing interactions in their entirety, including plan enrollment, with beneficiaries that take place over the phone. This applies to all current and new Medicare Advantage and Medicaid beneficiaries. Agents are also required to maintain these recordings for 10 years. Please note that we’ll be requesting the required call recordings when we perform our sales audits.” – Premera Blue Cross

Among these changes, the ruling notes:

CMS is finalizing changes to marketing and communications requirements that will protect Medicare beneficiaries by ensuring they receive accurate and accessible information about Medicare coverage.

As healthcare agents and insurance brokers are third-party marketing organizations, to retain an accurate record of contact, they are mandated to record all calls with both clients and prospects where Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans are discussed.

With Dubber’s conversational call recording and intelligence platform, healthcare professionals and the healthcare industry are able to meet these new requirements:

• Compliance and regulatory management
  Compliantly record, securely store and encrypt all conversational data required by HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, KYC, Dodd-Frank, MiFID II, and more in the Dubber Conversation Intelligence Cloud.
• Critical data archiving and record management
  Capture, preserve, recover and archive valuable conversational data. Empower comprehensive and continuous compliance control. Enact legal hold.
• Rapid investigations and discoverability
  Real-time search and reporting. Surface crucial conversations to support rapid investigation and effectively respond to audit requests quickly and accurately.
• Integrate
  Easily integrate metadata and insights using the Dubber API with compliance management platforms, CRM and big data sets.

With a compliant, cost-effective and secure conversation capture solution, available via a SaaS model, healthcare providers and agents can not only meet the new legal mandate, but they can reduce their risk, monitor processes and patient service, all while eliminating errors in communication. Dubber is deployed immediately to satisfy the voice-based record-keeping needs of operations and patients to meet both the external and internal duty of care standards.

As healthcare agents and insurance brokers are third-party marketing organizations, to retain an accurate record of contact, they are mandated to record all calls with both clients and prospects where Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans are discussed.

With Dubber’s conversational call recording and intelligence platform, healthcare professionals and the healthcare industry are able to meet these new requirements:

• Compliance and regulatory management
  Compliantly record, securely store and encrypt all conversational data required by HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, KYC, Dodd-Frank, MiFID II, and more in the Dubber Conversation Intelligence Cloud.
• Critical data archiving and record management
  Capture, preserve, recover and archive valuable conversational data. Empower comprehensive and continuous compliance control. Enact legal hold.
• Rapid investigations and discoverability
  Real-time search and reporting. Surface crucial conversations to support rapid investigation and effectively respond to audit requests quickly and accurately.
• Integrate
  Easily integrate metadata and insights using the Dubber API with compliance management platforms, CRM and big data sets.

With a compliant, cost-effective and secure conversation capture solution, available via a SaaS model, healthcare providers and agents can not only meet the new legal mandate, but they can reduce their risk, monitor processes and patient service, all while eliminating errors in communication. Dubber is deployed immediately to satisfy the voice-based record-keeping needs of operations and patients to meet both the external and internal duty of care standards.

A common theme emerges in our conversations with service providers – how to drive differentiation from the massive investment in new technology such as 5G and Unified Communications while at the same time increasing revenue and EBITA performance.

The answer is in the network – in every conversation. That’s why we’re excited to be at Mobile World Congress, Las Vegas, showcasing how the Conversation Cloud and Dubber platform can deliver data-rich insights gathered across any platform on any device. Adding AI to every end-point unlocks revenue, retention and differentiation.

Gartner predicts that “By 2025, 75% of conversations at work will be recorded and analyzed, enabling the discovery of added organizational value or risk.”

This supports the demand for call recording and conversational intelligence we are experiencing today. Differentiation is critical to driving revenue and retention. Unlocking the insights hidden within conversational data exposes opportunities for improving CX, EX, productivity, training, expedited dispute resolution, and areas where revenue is lost.

We are unlocking this significant market opportunity with our more than 175 service provider partners.

See us at booth W2.910, where the Dubber team will demonstrate how the Dubber platform is modernizing over 175 service providers’ approaches to recording by unifying content and data from all end-points and enriching every conversation with AI-powered Conversational intelligence. Don’t miss out!

Come by and receive a demo! We’ll have all the usual conference fanfare – great prizes, a sentiment analysis game, and a great magic act that you will have to see to believe!

So if you are attending #MWC22, visit the Dubber team for a chat and a demo on how putting Dubber on your voice, video, and chat offerings can help deliver ROI on your 5G investments. You don’t want to miss this!

“We’re in a really significant wave of change,” says Andy Lark, CMO of Dubber. As ever, according to Lark, the economics of change quietly move the more visible technology of change. The need for companies to grow revenue and to improve revenue, are causing them to look for, and in some cases, to allow for, technology advancements that can enable them to achieve their goals.

In this podcast, Lark stresses the accessibility of those improvements and the centralist of the SP. Cloud communications, cloud computing, AI and ML, are delivering technologies that were once available only to the world’s largest technology companies to now be available to the local veterinarian.

“What if there was no gap,” speculates Lark about the way that sales teams often ignore sales tools such as CRMs. Events, ideas, and comments are literally lost, and a valuable, well-intentioned sales process is undermined.

Now, according to Lark, there’s the possibility of recording and capturing events, ideas, and comments in a way that really works with the personas of the people involved. SPs looking to monetize opportunities, need to take a close look at these possibilities for their customers. Lark tells us that productivity improvements can be sold but it must be tangible. Being able to give back a customer the lost time he now dedicates to making meeting notes is an example of this sort of offering real world gains.

Listen to the full podcast

Discover how you can record calls, monitor breaches and store conversations in the cloud – all while being compliant. Download the Dubber call recording compliance checklist now.

In a world of Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls, it’s essential to stay on top of call recording compliance. Legacy, location specific call recording systems are in the past. The world has adapted to a new way of working, but the compliance rules and regulations remain the same.

Download our call recording compliance checklist to:

• Learn what unified call recording is and why it’s essential
• Meet regulations like AML/CTF, RG271, Hayne Royal Commission bills, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, KYC, Dodd-Frank, MiFID II, and more
• See how Dubber AI can proactively mitigate fraud and compliance risks
• Learn how to achieve continuous compliance – whether your employees are texting, calling or messaging
• Understand how storing your call recordings in the cloud can make accessing recordings easier and prepares you for legal hold requests

Many of the people who deal with Hinchinbrook Shire Council are not comfortable with connecting online. “That means they are more likely to use their phones to contact the council than go through online channels”, says Emma Prior, the council’s administration services team leader. **

“We use Dubber Call Recording for our main customer service centre. Our rates team and the regulatory compliance team also all have their phones recorded. We use the recording to deal with contentious issues – we get a lot of ‘he said, she said’ with our customers. We use the recordings to back us up.”

She says the move to call recording came from when the council would do rates debt collection.

“Part of our process is to place reminder calls to home owners. But people would deny they were called or claim that they had missed the call and there wasn’t a message.

“Now we can say: hang on, we have this recording to show that we did speak to you or leave a message on a particular date. That was the driver for getting recordings in the first place, from there we have gone on to use it in other areas.”

Prior’s team deals with a variety of calls. “Rates are the main ones, then there are roads, animals and cemetery enquiries. Hinchinbrook also handles food licensing. We get all sorts of things, we field things that aren’t even council matters.”

Information services manager Steven Veltmeyer says there are 20 Dubber Cloud Call Recording licences at the council.

He says; “Until now we have operated as separate divisions, but we are in the process of centralising all incoming calls to go through our main customer service centre. Now that we are rolling out Microsoft Teams, it will be easier to keep control of these calls”.

Hinchinbrook Shire Council was the first council in Queensland to roll-out Microsoft Teams as its sole solution and the first in the state to use Dubber Cloud Call Recording on Teams.

Dubber delivered significant revenue growth and increases across all key metrics in the 2022 financial year (FY22) reflecting demand from service providers for new sources of value. Dubber’s core strategy, to create value for services providers through unified recording and conversational AI as a core network service, adds incremental revenue, retention and differentiation based on meeting the needs of every user of business communications services globally. 

FY22 Performance Highlights & Key Metrics (pcp)

• Substantial organic growth in all core business indicators
• Capital raise of $110m at $2.95 per share in July 2021; business objectives fully funded
• Completed integration of Notiv and Speik acquisitions – expanding commercial opportunities
• Investment in the AI and NLP capability on the Dubber platform to meet customer demand
• Extended relationships with service providers; expansion of Foundation Partner program
• Expanded global footprint; key executive appointments in technology, product and sales capability

28 July 2022 Melbourne, Australia: Dubber Corporation Limited (ASX:DUB) (‘Dubber’ or ‘the Company’), the leading unified call recording and voice intelligence platform to telecommunication service providers globally, today reports its 4Q FY22 Appendix 4C and Quarterly Activities to 30 June 2022.

4Q FY22 Highlights

• Annualised Recurring Revenue (ARR) increased by $5m QoQ to $59m (+51% pcp)
• Operating Revenue increased to $10.3m1, up 12% QoQ (+41% pcp)
• Total annual revenue increased to $36m1, up 75% on the previous financial year
• Cash receipts for the year were $29.9m, up 48% on the previous financial year
• Gross Margin on current revenues exceeded 70%
• Dubber subscribers exceed 580,000 (+38% pcp)
• Cash on hand at 30 June 2022 was $84.3m
• Dubber is fully funded and continues to invest in contracted and future growth with a focus on winning new service providers and expanding organic growth of users via the Dubber platform
• Appointments: Sarah Diamond (to be appointed) as Independent Non-Executive Director; Michael Abenhaim, SVP, Americas

We are thrilled to announce that NUWAVE is now a Dubber Foundation Partner – and as of August 1st, 2022, we are taking off on NUWAVE iPILOT 2.0!

NUWAVE has 20+ years of delivering first-class communications services to customers worldwide and provides an intuitive, all-in-one solution for Microsoft Teams Telephony and Voice Service.

As one of the only global certified value-added resellers (VARs) in Microsoft’s Operator Connect Accelerator Program, NUWAVE has developed a unique provisioning and lifecycle management system for Microsoft voice users called iPILOT. The services suite allows service providers and enterprises to quickly and easily deploy Microsoft Teams Voice services including rapid migration, provisioning, capacity management, support, integration, and analytics.

Microsoft Teams has more than 270 million monthly active users, and NUWAVE is one of the fastest-growing providers of Microsoft voice services in North America. Steve McGovern, Dubber’s CEO, sums it up perfectly: “NUWAVE is an outstanding partner that has ‘cracked the code’ with Microsoft Teams Voice services.”

What this partnership means for you

As a Dubber Foundation Partner, Dubber Unified Conversational Recording (UCR) and voice data services are now integrated into iPILOT 2.0 and available to all NUWAVE clients as an entry-level solution at no cost. Now NUWAVE customers can easily harness the power of Dubber to unlock valuable information and insights from conversations across voice and video, all without the need for expensive hardware.

“We are excited to be partnering with Dubber.  Dubber’s unique scalability fits perfectly with our view of what cloud voice users, enterprises and service providers are demanding.  By integrating Dubber into iPILOT, we’re able to build on our iPILOT platform and provide service providers with extremely valuable, margin enhancing services that in return will help their customers extract even more value from their voice and video calls. “

–Mark Bunnell, NUWAVE COO

Moving forward, NUWAVE and its partners will work with Dubber to introduce customers to richer and more comprehensive conversational recording and AI solutions. This will make it possible for customers to address a broad range of business needs by unlocking valuable information and insights from conversations across their voice and video calls.

So what are you waiting for? Turn on Dubber on iPILOT 2.0 today!  

Check out the full NUWAVE partner announcement here.

Melbourne, Australia, London, UK, Dallas, USA – 26 July 2022 — Dubber Corporation Limited (ASX: DUB) (Dubber) announced that it has signed a Foundation Partner agreement with Nuwave Communications, Inc. (NUWAVE).  NUWAVE, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, is one of the fastest growing providers of Microsoft voice services in North America and a key player in the Microsoft Operator Connect calling program.

Dubber Unified Conversational Recording (UCR) and voice data services are now integrated into iPILOT and available to all NUWAVE clients from August 1.

Microsoft Teams has more than 270 million monthly active users, making it the world’s fastest growing and most popular business communication suite. NUWAVE is a global communications and cloud platform as a service provider with a focus on simplification, automation, and innovation. They continue to provide many industry-first solutions which facilitate customer cloud communication adoption.

Steve McGovern, Dubber CEO: “NUWAVE is an outstanding partner that has ‘cracked the code’ with Microsoft Teams Voice services. They attack and remove complexity at every level, making it simple and easy for service providers and enterprises through iPILOT to quickly get the most out of their Microsoft Teams environments. They are an ideal partner for Dubber as we both work to enhance customer value and revenue for service providers in their Teams deployments.”

“We are seeing continued momentum for our Foundation Partner model in which Dubber’s unified conversational recording platform is embedded as standard, providing immediate and accretive revenue to both ourselves and our partners.”

Mark Bunnell, NUWAVE COO: “We are excited to be partnering with Dubber.  Dubber’s unique scalability fits perfectly with our view of what cloud voice users, enterprises and service providers are demanding.  By integrating Dubber into iPILOT, we’re able to build on our iPILOT platform and provide service providers with extremely valuable, margin enhancing services that in return will help their customers extract even more value from their voice and video calls.”

As a Foundation Partner, NUWAVE will provide partners and customers with the option to instantly provision access via iPILOT to Dubber’s industry-leading conversational recording capabilities as an entry level solution at no cost to NUWAVE customers and partners.

NUWAVE and its partners can then choose to work with Dubber to introduce customers to richer and more comprehensive conversational recording and AI solutions to address a broad range of business needs by unlocking valuable information and insights from conversations across their voice and video calls.

Dubber supports differentiation and revenue opportunities for service providers that continue to scale their voice services to enterprise, SME and government customers on Microsoft Teams. Dubber’s Unified Recording and Conversational Data and AI services enable compliance, training, customer service, dispute resolution and remote workforce enablement without the requirement for hardware or capital expenditure.

As a unique platform provider and carrier in Microsoft’s Operator Connect Accelerator Program, NUWAVE has developed a powerful provisioning and “lifecycle” management cloud based platform for Microsoft voice users called iPILOT.  The iPILOT platform allows carriers, cloud service providers and enterprise organizations to quickly and easily deploy Microsoft Teams Voice services including rapid migration, provisioning, capacity management, support, integration and analytics.  It automates for both Direct Routing and Operator Connect capabilities while also providing support for carrier hosted SBCs (session border controllers), on-premises SIP trunks, and “bring your own Network” for carriers and operators.

About NUWAVE:

NUWAVE is a global communications and cloud platform as a service provider with a focus on simplification and innovation which continues to provide many industry-first solutions which facilitate customer cloud communication adoption. NUWAVE’s iPILOT platform enables automation, provisioning, and analytics for cloud communications, and helps to improve upon the UC voice management experience.  NUWAVE’s iPILOT™ and SYNTHESIS™ platforms together can provide Carriers, CSPs or SIs with a turnkey, globally scalable solution to offer an industry leading Cloud Phone BYOC program for their partners and customers. To learn more about iPILOT™, SYNTHESIS™ and NUWAVE, please visit www.NUWAVE.com or www.iPilot.io.

About Dubber:

Dubber enables service providers to unlock the potential of the network – turning every conversation into an exponential source of value for differentiated innovation, retention, and revenue. Listed on the ASX, Dubber is the clear market leader in conversational intelligence and unified conversational recording – embedded at the heart of over 170 service provider networks and services and used daily by over 500,000 subscribers worldwide.

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For more information, please contact:

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Claims specialists working for global travel insurance assistance provider Cover-More Group, in Australia, use Dubber call recording for auditing, compliance and legal purposes.

Cover-More provides medical and risk management assistance to people travelling for business and pleasure. It has offices in 15 countries and is part of the Zurich Insurance Group. The business deals with millions of customers every year.

Peter Valdes, who leads Cover-More’s global telephony and unified communications team, says Dubber call recording is available on demand to every member of staff. The company uses it to record all non-contact centre calls across the business. The main user is the Claims Team: people working in that team have it switched on permanently.

He says Cover-More had previously used on-premise-based call recording but when the business moved to Cisco Webex it wanted to give the Claims Team its own call recording system. Kytec, Cover-More’s integration partner, recommended Dubber because of its ability to integrate smoothly with Webex.

While the Claims Team is based in Brisbane, having call recording in the cloud means team members could work from home or from the Sydney office.

“The Claims Team records all calls,” Peter says. “This protects the customer as well as ourselves. That way any information we get over the phone can be relied upon if there is a dispute or if incorrect information is provided.”

“The team leaders use call recording to listen to any call that a staff member flags as concerning or suspicious. If we deny a claim because of inconsistent statements, we may need to rely on the recording as evidence of this if the customer disputes our decision.

“We also provide transcripts for any call when it is requested.”

Cover-More is a complex business, Peter says.

“We have two main business units: travel insurance and medical assistance. Thousands of calls come into our contact centre each day.”

The details of all the customer calls are input to Cover-More’s CRM system.

Peter says he uses Dubber himself to record calls on his work phone.

“I think it’s great. The portal is simple to use. Finding calls is straightforward; you look for the time, date and who picked up the call, then hit play. You can tag it for later or download it.”

Longer term Peter plans to look at integrating Dubber with other systems and at ways of making the information captured in Claims Team calls available to other business units.

Want to learn more?