Anthem Implements BenefitNation's i-Providers System to Serve its Eight Million Members.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers DULLES, Va.--(BW HealthWire)--July 23, 2002 BenefitNation today announced that Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. has selected and implemented BenefitNation's i-Providers system, allowing Anthem's eight million members to search for a health care provider over the Internet. Utilizing the i-Providers system, Anthem members can select a provider based on a wide variety of criteria, including name, specialty, gender, languages, whether or not they are accepting new patients and geographic distance. BenefitNation's i-Providers creates personalized provider directories in PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. format for users, which can be downloaded, printed or emailed. The i-Providers system also includes turn-by-turn driving directions to provider offices and hospital locations. Through BenefitNation's hosting services, the i-Providers system will be available to Anthem members 24x7x365 over the Internet through the anthem.com website at no charge. "The On-Line Provider Directory represents an important piece of our strategy of providing real-time relevant information to our members over the Internet," said Mark Boxer, senior vice president of eBusiness for Anthem. "BenefitNation's i-Provider system provided all of the functionality that we were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. and their project team delivered the site on-time and on budget." "We are excited about adding Anthem to our expanding client list for the i-Providers service," stated Bill Reulein, president and chief executive officer of BenefitNation. "i-Providers delivers the most functionality in the managed care industry and remains flexible and cost effective for both small and large managed care organizations." About Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield provides health care benefits and services to more than 8 million people. The Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies are subsidiaries of Anthem, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ATH), an Indianadomiciled publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. . Anthem is the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Connecticut, New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , Colorado, Nevada and Maine. Anthem, Inc. and its Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield subsidiary companies are independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
About BenefitNation BenefitNation, the Document Lifecycle Specialist, is a market leader in providing customized publishing solutions to numerous industry segments. BenefitNation delivers high value services that cover each stage of the document lifecycle, including creation, production and distribution. These services help businesses dynamically streamline, improve and gain management control of each aspect of the supply chain process. The vertical segments served by BenefitNation include managed care, pharmaceutical, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , insurance, benefits consulting, manufacturing industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation and associations. BenefitNation is a Bertelsmann company and is headquartered in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , with technology operations located there and in Silicon Valley. For more information regarding BenefitNation please visit the corporate website at www.benefitnation.com. BenefitNation, the BenefitNation logo and i-Providers are trademarks or service marks of BenefitNation, Inc. in the United States |
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