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| BlueCross BlueShield Unveils New Enrollment Service for Large Employers |
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Columbia, S.C - Aug. 1, 2002 - BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina announces BluesEnroll One, a new open enrollment one-time service provided to employers with 50 or more employees.
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BluesEnroll One, developed in partnership between BlueCross and Benefitfocus.com, Inc., integrates secure Internet and touch screen, kiosk-based, employee self-service with benefit coordinator support for a one-time cost to remove the paperwork from the annual benefits open enrollment process. Working with employers' existing human resource information systems, it reconciles employers' payroll data with BlueCross membership data, immediately identifying any discrepancies between the two systems.
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The service is available only to self-funded accounts. BlueCross estimates that several hundred companies in South Carolina will benefit from using BluesEnroll One. |
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In 1996 congress passed HIPAA legislation in an effort to protect the security and confidentiality of health information transmitted electronically as well as to allow individuals to qualify for insurance coverage when changing jobs.
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Instead of filling out several paper forms to enroll in health and ancillary benefits, including 401(k) programs, BluesEnroll One allows employees to self-enroll with one paperless process for all of their benefits. The employee uses a secure Web site accessed through home or office computers or through kiosk-based touch screen computers located in work sites to select and enroll for benefits. Automation of the open enrollment process reduces errors, lowers administrative costs, improves benefit communications and eliminates paperwork.
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"Employees will appreciate the ease of use of our BluesEnroll One technology, and streamlining the process with BluesEnroll One will be of great value to human resource departments. We're happy to offer this to companies in South Carolina," said BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Senior Vice President Don Nystrom.
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"BlueCross has won many awards for its initiatives in customer self-service technology, and groups in South Carolina will benefit from this technology. We're pleased that our software application and easy to use, touch screen kiosk technology have helped make this possible," said Benefitfocus.com President and CEO Shawn Jenkins.
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About Benefitfocus
Benefitfocus.com, Inc. (Benefitfocus) is a leading provider of benefits administration software and services, offering employees and employers access to all benefits and human resource information securely over the Internet. Linking this data to payroll vendors and benefit providers, Benefitfocus applications seamlessly exchange data, therefore reducing errors and costs associated with traditional paper-based forms. Benefitfocus applications are designed to make companies more efficient, cost-effective, and more focused on delivering actual benefits instead of spending time on undue paperwork.
The company is headquartered in Mount Pleasant, SC (Charleston), and has an established client base of over 8,000 corporate employers in all fifty states.
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About BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina is the predominant insurance provider in the state of South Carolina insuring over 1.6 million in the state. They have established themselves as a leading developer of products and services. Additionally, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, with its development of My Insurance Manager, is a national award winning organization in the use of and development of leading web technologies. They may be reached at their web site at www.SouthCarolinaBlues.com
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