Benefitfocus’ innovative benefit software solutions are regularly covered by the media. Benefitfocus is proud of the accomplishments and good work our customers do to provide healthcare. The following highlights press coverage about Benefitfocus and our customers…
"Learning from the Past"
August 2008 | Human Resources Executive Online reporter Tom Starner writes that there lessons to be learned from the behavior of workers and 401(k) plans when employers design health plans that require complex decisions. He relates this CDHPs and HSAs future trends. Benefitfocus president and ceo Shawn Jenkins comments about this market and slow adoption. Read Article
"Benefitfocus debuts 'Video-as-a-Service'"
August 2008 | Benefitfocus has launched Video-as-a-Service (VaaS), an end-to-end solution that offers video production, post-production services, delivery, hosting and online distribution of content. Read Article
"Employees Need Information to Be Savvy Consumers"
August 2008 | Consumer-driven health plans (CDHP) have given employees money and responsibility for their healthcare. Now the work force needs adequate information to go with the responsibility. Employers can capitalize on the increased cost savings and cost control of CDHP if they provide the tools that allow employees to shop, compare and simplify a complex healthcare landscape. Read Article
"Health Content08 Announces Headline Speaker and Expands to Showcase Industry Standouts"
July 2008 | Health Content08 is expanding this year to include Innovators Showcase, where 10 emerging companies, selected by an advisory committee, will present initiatives that will re-set the standards for the industry. Benefitfocus is one of the companies represented. Read Article
"Editor's Desk: June-July 2008"
June-July 2008 | Jenkins founded Charleston, S.C.-based Benefitfocus in 2000 and expects it to grow into a $1 billion business in the next few years. He now rarely flies as the pilot, but his airplanes take him and his top staff over much of the country. Read Article
"Food bank will have room to grow"
June 2008 | As chairman of the Lowcountry Food Bank’s Growing Forward Capital Campaign, Shawn Jenkins, president and CEO of Benefitfocus urges the community to help in the fight to end hunger. Read Article
"Billing & Payment Systems: Billing System Overload?"
June 2008 | When it comes to legacy systems, should they be replaced or enhanced? Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arkansas decided to recently to enhance their system by implementing Benefitfocus’ eBilling solution. Read Article
"Consumers Drive Payers I.T. Investments"
June 2008 | As consumer-driven health plans gain enrollees, payers are expanding their use of information technology to support the high-deductible plans, technology such as Benefitfocus’ online benefit enrollment solutions. Read Article
May 2008 | Benefitfocus is working to perfect its Spanish-language program and develop programs in Vietnamese, French and German as the competition surrounding consumer-driven health plans focuses on providing information in multiple languages.
"Ask Kevin Ryan: Former CEO DoubleClick"
May 2008 | Shawn Jenkins, president and CEO of Benefitfocus, asks, “How do you know when to invest in a new technology that has the potential to replace the product you currently sell?” Read Article
"Engage the Consumer"
March 2008 | "The consumers are really beginning to get engaged in the discussion," says Shawn Jenkins, president and CEO of Benefitfocus. Read more in Healthcare Finance News reporter Eric Wicklund's article entitled "Benefitfocus' goal: Engage the consumer." Read Article
“DataDirect Technologies’ XML Converters Streamline Data Integration for the Healthcare Industry”
February 2008 | DataDirect XML Converters are being used by leading healthcare organizations to accelerate application development efforts, enhance operational efficiency, reduce overall costs and improve patient service levels.
“Benefitfocus Goes Online with eDirect”
January 2008 | Motivated in part by a roughly 30 percent increase in online purchases during the recent holiday season, Benefitfocus has rolled out eDirect, a technology that allows consumers to shop for and purchase health insurance online. Read Article
“Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana selects Benefitfocus billing solution”
January 2008 | Montana-based CBS affiliate KRTV announced the recent partnership of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Montana with Benefitfocus. The new partnership provides BCBSMT with the ability to process bills online and provide faster access to invoice information, as well as payment and reporting services. Watch Video
January 2008 | Benefitfocus eDirect is a technology which enables health insurance carriers to profitably offer individual health plan offerings in new and unique ways while tracking the ROI for specific marketing campaigns. Read Article
“Vendors integrate HSA apps”
January 2008 |
Benefitfocus will integrate into its eEnrollment benefit management software the health savings account management Web portal application of ConnectYourCare, enabling employers to offer electronic enrollment to employees and online tools to manage consumer-driven health plans with HSAs.
“Interview Transcript with Shawn Jenkins, CEO Benefitfocus”
January 2008 |
Blogger Matthew Holt’s August 2007 interview transcript and podcast with Benefitfocus president and CEO, Shawn Jenkins on The Healthcare Blog. Holt's blog is followed by many around the globe, including national A-list press, such as Wired, Red Herring, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, ABC News, and FOX News. Read Article or Click below to listen to the podcast.
“Employees: Get healthy or you may have to pick up the tab for your health insurance”
January 2008 |
As far as traditional consumer-directed health plans are concerned, perhaps the most significant event (of 2007) to report is that they not only hung around, but also saw modest gains as employers increasingly turned to them as a viable option for providing coverage to their employees.
“2007: Steady Growth, Enhanced Consumerism”
January 2008 |
It’s telling that many of the experts CDH consulted identified something that happened in late 2006–the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006–as the most important CDH development of 2007.
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