COLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Companion Healthcare of South Carolina announced today that it is offering CompanionQuickEnroll to employers with fewer than 50 employees. CompanionQuickEnroll is Companion Healthcare's electronic benefit enrollment application.
"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 fewer than 50 employees," says Bill Ferguson, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Companion Healthcare. "Our Carolina Advantage product, which is available to small employers, is growing at an unbelievable rate. By strengthening Carolina Advantage with CompanionQuickEnroll, we will continue to enhance and drive our market advantage."
Carolina Advantage is Companion Healthcare's core offering to small employers in the state of South Carolina. With CompanionQuickEnroll, 24 hour, 7 day per week access to benefit information will be available to group administrators, members, brokers and Companion Healthcare customer support staff. This integration is a major enhancement to benefit enrollment. Electronic billing capabilities will be added in the future.
The enrollment technology powering CompanionQuickEnroll is designed and engineered by Benefitfocus.com, Inc. "Offering the CompanionQuickEnroll technology to the rapidly expanding small group market of Companion Healthcare is a real success for Benefitfocus. Our technology allows members, groups, brokers, and Companion Healthcare 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.
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.
About Companion Heath Care of South Carolina
With more than 191,000 members, Companion HealthCare is one of the largest health plans in the state. Companion HealthCare is a licensed subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Both are independent licensees of the BlueCross BlueShield Association. Companion HealthCare has an A+ rating from AM Best.
About Benefitfocus
Benefitfocus.com, Inc. (Benefitfocus) is the leading provider of employee benefits software and services offering employees and employers secure, online access to benefits and human resource information. Its suite of products and services includes large and small group electronic enrollment, electronic quoting, electronic billing, and data exchange services. Benefitfocus replaces time-consuming, expensive and error-prone paper processes allowing companies to administer all their benefit offering through one interface. This one-to-many platform substantially speeds up benefit enrollment and administration while reducing overall costs and greatly improving communication to the employee.
Benefitfocus.com, Inc.CONTACT: Nate DaPore of Benefitfocus.com, Inc., +1-843-607-8601
Web site: http://www.benefitfocus.com/