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BlueChoice HealthPlan Announces New Online Tools for Groups with Under 50 Employees.
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| Columbia, SC - October 11, 2004 - BlueChoice HelathPlan, a wholly owned subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, announced today that it is offering CompanionQuickEnroll to employers with under 50 employees. QuickEnroll is Companion Healthcare's electronic benefit enrollment application.
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"We are very excited and proud to be the first in our state to offer a comprehensive set of Internet based tools for employers with under 50 employees," says Bill Ferguson, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, BlueChoice HelathPlan. "Our Carolina Advantage product, which is available to small employers, is growing at an unbelievable rate. By strengthening Carolina Advantage with QuickEnroll, we will continue to enhance and drive our market advantage."
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Carolina Advantage is BlueChoice HelathPlan's core offering to small employers in the state of South Carolina. With QuickEnroll, 24 hour, 7 day per week access to benefit information will be available to group administrators, members, brokers and BlueChoice HelathPlan customer support staff. This integration is a major enhancement to benefit enrollment. Electronic billing capabilities will be added in the future.
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The enrollment technology powering QuickEnroll is designed and engineered by Benefitfocus.com, Inc. "Offering the QuickEnroll technology to the rapidly expanding small group market of BlueChoice HelathPlan is a real success for Benefitfocus. Our technology allows members, groups, brokers, and BlueChoice HelathPlan staff to seamlessly gather health information for small groups while providing a robust application for the enrollment and eligibility process," says Shawn Jenkins, President and CEO of Benefitfocus.com.
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CompanionQuickEnroll was originally introduced in 2001 to employers with over 50 employees and has been adopted by over 85% of Companion Healthcare's large groups. Including broker access as well as Companion Healthcare's pre-sales health statement and underwriting process is a major advancement over the often error prone and time-consuming process of managing the large volume of small groups. CompanionQuickEnroll captures data, via the web, from all parties. It manages the workflow, in a secure fashion, and delivers transactions directly to Companion Healthcare's membership and billing system. This system provides instant access to information by all parties and greatly improves the accuracy and timeliness of the multi-step process.
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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 BlueChoice HealthPlan
BlueChoice HealthPlan is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., both are independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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