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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Selects Captiva's FormWare to Capture Customer Forms and Claims.


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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2003

ClaimPack Implementation to Process Deluge of HCFA HCFA
abbr.
Health Care Financing Administration


HCFA,
n.pr See Health Care Financing Administration.
 and UB92 Claims

Captiva Software Captiva Software is now part of EMC Software Group, a division of EMC Corporation.[1] Captiva makes software solutions for document information processing and data capture from paper and electronic documents and provides related services.  Corp. (Nasdaq:CPTV CPTV Connecticut Public Television ), the leading provider of enterprise input management solutions, today announced that Blue Cross Blue and Shield of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures


Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop.
 (BCBSNC BCBSNC Bluecross Blueshield North Carolina ), the state's largest health insurer with more than 2.8 million members, has implemented FormWare(TM), Captiva's award-winning information capture software that automates data and image capture from paper and electronic documents.

Now in production with FormWare, BCBSNC is processing more than 17,000 documents, such as enrollment forms and customer correspondence, per day.

"We are pleased with the performance of FormWare. On one of our first days in production, we processed over 26,000 pieces of work before noon. FormWare has been so successful that we're looking to acquire additional licenses for more of our users who want to benefit from the system," said John Sternbergh BCBSNC's chief information officer. "Captiva's professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  group (PSG PSG,
n polysomnograph; polygraph performed during sleep. Physiological variables such as pulse, blood pressure, and respiration are monitored and charted.
) has been essential to the success of our new system. We would not be at the point we are today without their dedication and professionalism."

With FormWare fully operational, Captiva's PSG is now helping BCBSNC implement ClaimPack(TM), Captiva's medical claims processing application which runs on FormWare, to capture and process BCBSNC's HCFA and UB92 medical claims. BCBSNC expects to go live with ClaimPack in the weeks ahead to process the 29,000 HCFA and 2,600 UB92 claim forms the company receives every day.

"It has been a pleasure to work with the professionals at BCBSNC to implement their FormWare and ClaimPack production systems. We're delighted that they are so satisfied with their solution and the support of our professional services group," said Jim Haley, Captiva's vice president of professional services. "We're confident BCBSNC will be as pleased with ClaimPack as our 125 other production level sites who process over 10 million medical claim forms per day."

FormWare is Captiva's flagship information capture software that manages business-critical information from forms, documents and electronic data streams into an enterprise in an accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. This information can then be exported to database, document, content and other information management systems, helping to maximize the accuracy and value of the data, speed the capture process, increase productivity and significantly reduce the cost of manual operations. FormWare is used by companies worldwide to extract information from forms of all types, including medical and other insurance claims, invoices, credit applications, tax returns, order-entry forms and many other documents.

ClaimPack is Captiva's award-winning claims processing software that automates data and image capture from complex paper and electronic HCFA and UB92 claim forms. Using the latest developments in scanning, image processing and recognition technologies, ClaimPack automatically reads the information on these forms, analyzes, corrects and validates the data and enters it into enterprise workflow or database management systems. This streamlined process reduces manual data entry costs and processing times, increases the accuracy of the data collected and improves customer service.

About 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.  of North Carolina

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is a leader in delivering innovative health care products, services and information to 2.8 million members, including 470,000 served on behalf of other Blue plans. For 69 years, the company has served its customers by offering access to quality health care at a competitive price and has served the people of North Carolina through support of community organizations, programs and events that promote good health. BCBSNC also has North Carolina's first and only NCQA NCQA National Committee on Quality Assurance, see there  accredited accredited

recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria.


accredited herds
cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g.
 PPO PPO
abbr.
preferred provider organization


PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there
 plan - Blue Options(SM). Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross redirects here. For other uses, see Blue Cross (disambiguation)
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is a American federation of 39 independent, community-based and locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield healthcare
. Access BCBSNC online at www.bcbsnc.com.

About Captiva Software

Captiva Software Corporation (Nasdaq: CPTV) is a leading provider of enterprise input management software solutions. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business critical information from paper, faxed and scanned forms and documents, Internet forms and XML XML
 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
 data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of billions of forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Captiva serves thousands of users in insurance, financial services, government, business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in , direct marketing and other markets. For more information, visit www.captivasoftware.com.

FormWare and ClaimPack are trademarks of Captiva Software Corp. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including, among other things, any projections of earnings, revenues (including where the underlying contract has already been signed), or other financial items; any statements of the plans, strategies, and objectives of management for future operations; any statements concerning proposed new products, services, or developments; any statements regarding future economic conditions or performance; statements of belief and any statement of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. The risks, uncertainties and assumptions referred to above include, among other things, performance of contracts by customers and partners; employee management issues; the timely development, production and acceptance of products and services and their feature sets; the challenge of managing asset levels, including inventory; the flow of products into third-party distribution channels; the difficulty of keeping expense growth at modest levels while increasing revenues. These and other risks and factors that could cause events or our results to differ from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements are described in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

See 10-Q.
, as well as other subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We assume no obligation and do not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
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