Eldorado's Javelina Selected by American Postal Workers Union Health Plan to Maximize Agility, Efficiencies in Claims & Benefits Management.PHOENIX -- Eldorado Computing, Inc. (ELDORADO), an MphasiS Company and a leading provider of health benefit and claims management platforms, today announced that American Postal Workers Union The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is a labor union in the United States. It represents employees of the United States Postal Service who are clerks, maintenance employees, and motor vehicle service workers. It also represents approximately 2,000 private-sector mail workers. Health Plan (APWUHP), the fourth-largest national health insurance plan serving postal and federal employees, retirees, and their families, has selected ELDORADO's Javelina javelina: see peccary. (TM) to manage claims and benefits for more than 84,000 employees and their families. APWUHP selected Javelina to significantly improve the automation of claims and streamline benefits management to better serve its members. APWUHP cited the platform's open architecture and application interoperability as vital requirements in its efforts to identify a true, next generation system with the flexibility to adapt to changes in the healthcare environment. As Rocky Midgett, Chief Operating Manager of American Postal Workers Union, explained, "We identified key system attributes that would give us the flexibility to respond to things like changes in benefit structure, complex plan designs, as well as interoperability with other applications. The innovative platform design delivers the back end integration and user-centric functionality that will improve our business performance, support future expansion and lower our total cost of ownership." "We are excited to partner with American Postal Workers Union Health Plan to deliver the next generation functionality and technology that will transform its business operations and enhance services for our nation's mail workers," said Tom Castleberry, Vice Chairman of ELDORADO. About APWU APWU American Postal Workers Union The American Postal Workers Union Health Plan provides health coverage programs that are open to employees or retirees covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB FEHB Federal Employees Health Benefits ) Program. The Health Plan is a department of the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. . The APWU Health Plan has been serving its members since 1960, when the FEHB Program first began. For more information, visit www.apwuhp.com. About ELDORADO Based in Phoenix, Ariz., Eldorado (Eldorado Computing, Inc.) specializes in health insurance application development, 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 (BPO) services, IT engineering and operational consulting. The company serves the full spectrum of organizations nationally and internationally engaged in managing health benefit plans including third party administrators (TPAs), health plans, employers and self-insured organizations. Together, Eldorado customers manage 5 million lives and handle 35 million claims annually. For more information, contact 602.604.3100 or visit www.eldoinc.com and www.eldocomp.com. *The legal entity remains unchanged as Eldorado Computing, Inc. Eldorado is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of MphasiS BFL, an EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. company. |
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