BLOOMFIELD, Conn., Sept. 14, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CIGNA HealthCare announced today that it has teamed with Post-N-Track Corporation to deliver faster claims submission and tracking for health care providers, billing entities and transaction aggregators. The new service is available through a direct, universal, secure Web-based transaction solution that administers, monitors, and controls these transactions.
The new direct service is offered at no cost to CIGNA HealthCare providers and other business partners, who currently submit more than 70 million electronic claims annually. Post-N-Track is managing the program, including enrollment, software distribution and customer support. The HIPAA-compliant program allows health care providers and other business partners to submit or "post" their claims to CIGNA directly and securely over the Internet and receive or "track" processing results, such as receipt confirmations, acknowledgments, claims status and remittance notices without an intermediary.
"Providers want more options in how they conduct business with CIGNA," said Karen Ferrell, CIGNA HealthCare's Senior Vice President, Contracting and Provider Networks. "Through the use of Post-N-Track, we are making significant improvements in the way providers are able to submit claims without any need for them to change technology or incur any other costs."
Post-N-Track standardizes protocols and interfaces in a similar manner to secure email. Set-up is similar to online banking, making it easy for providers. Post-N-Track meets the needs of the entire health care business spectrum as organizations both strive to improve efficiencies and comply with their legal requirements.
"This new solution will make it easier and quicker to do business with CIGNA HealthCare," said Scott Storrer, Senior Vice President of Service Operations for CIGNA HealthCare. "CIGNA HealthCare's contracted providers will benefit from cost efficiencies as well as the ability to use and maintain their existing processes and systems. They will be able to maintain claims transaction processes with other insurance payors along with any current clearinghouse relationships."
"We are proud to serve CIGNA HealthCare as a technology partner," said G. Allen DeGraw, Founder and CEO of Post-N-Track. "CIGNA is leading the industry by working diligently and aggressively toward the HIPAA mandates for administrative simplification. They've taken HIPAA very seriously and are out in front of the market."
"We recognize that health plans, providers, and other participants have sizeable investments in systems and processes to manage the delivery of care," said DeGraw. "Therefore, rather than have technology dictate changes or new investments, participants can address needs, anticipate market demands, respond to market trends and streamline administrative processes - all without additional technology expenditures."
About CIGNA HealthCare
CIGNA HealthCare, headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut, provides medical benefits through managed care and indemnity health care plans, dental coverage, behavioral health coverage, and pharmacy benefits. "CIGNA HealthCare" refers to various operating subsidiaries of CIGNA Corporation . Products and services are provided by these operating subsidiaries and not by CIGNA Corporation.
About Post-N-Track
Post-N-Track Corporation is a software developer and services company specializing in a new generation of Web-based transaction exchange solutions for the transaction-intensive health care industry. Its solutions, available to any health plan, enable direct connectivity between health plans, health care providers, billing entities and transaction aggregators of any size. Post-N-Track improves health plan operations and achieves efficiency through secure and HIPAA-compliant exchange. Post-N-Track Corporation, a privately held company, is headquartered in Middletown, Connecticut. To learn more about Post-N-Track, visit the company at http://www.post-n-track.com/ or call 860.632.0572.
CIGNA CorporationContact: Joseph Mondy, CIGNA, +1-860-226-5499, joseph.mondy@cigna.com;or Janice Odell, Post-N-Track, +1-707-237-2738, jan@fordodell.com
Web site: http://www.post-n-track.com/
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