Workscape and ConnectYourCare Forge Alliance to Create Integrated Consumer-Directed Healthcare Benefits Platform for Large Employers
Proven, Best-in-Class Providers Deliver Payor Neutral Comprehensive Solution
| Source: Workscape
HUNT VALLEY, MD and MARLBOROUGH, MA--(Marketwire - June 11, 2008) - ConnectYourCare, a
top-ranked Consumer-Directed Healthcare (CDH) account platform provider,
and Workscape, a leading provider of outsourced benefits and talent
management solutions, have joined together to offer the first integrated
CDH benefits platform in the marketplace. Under the terms of the alliance,
Workscape will incorporate ConnectYourCare's CDH administration technology
-- featuring state-of-the-art claims substantiation and adjudication --
into their existing benefits platform that currently serves over 50 major
global corporations. The new solution enables large employers to continue
to use health plans for claims processing while providing plan participants
with a superior customer experience with health related service
point-of-purchase ease and flexibility.
ConnectYourCare is a spending account technology platform designed to
support Consumer Directed Health (CDH) plans, which typically include
savings accounts such as FSA, HRA and HSA. The company's advanced approach
to providing a rich, Web-based experience for account management and claims
submission aligns with Workscape's long-standing position of being the most
technologically advanced outsourced benefits administration solution
provider. The new CDH solution will be available for fall 2008 enrollment
and includes: implementation, 24-hour customer service, employee
communications, claims processing, compliance, a multi-purse healthcare
payment card, single-sign-on investment management and an employer-branded
CDH portal.
"As a leader in business-critical HR solutions, it was essential that
Workscape align with an organization that can effectively manage the
back-office complexities of today's CDH plan designs," stated Daryl Ashley,
vice president and general manager, Outsourced Benefits Administration,
Workscape. "Our mutual clients' success lies in creating a consumer-focused
vision of next generation CDH Account Administration and the joint
expertise and technology of ConnectYourCare and Workscape will create a
best-in-class offering."
"The Workscape benefits enrollment and delivery portal is one of the best
payor-independent consumer experiences in the marketplace," remarked Jamie
Spriggs, President and COO of ConnectYourCare. "Workscape has leveraged our
Web services capabilities to deploy an optimal consumer experience, branded
with its customers' 'look and feel,' so that the application integration
from enrollment and tools to accounts appears seamless to the user."
CDH's momentum is creating new plan designs that cannot be administered by
traditional vendors. Working together, ConnectYourCare and Workscape are
delivering a best-in-class solution for handling the complexities of these
plans, including for HRA and HSA combinations that -- until a few years ago
-- didn't exist. As a result, employers struggling to make sure their
employees gain the full benefit of CDH products can rely on this embedded
solution that has a fully integrated CDH component, along with CDH-centric
communications and processes.
More About Workscape Outsourced Benefits Administration (OBA)
Featuring powerful, easy-to-use technology, Workscape's OBA offerings
include robust employee enrollment and life event management applications;
dynamic and personalized decision support tools; benefit manager analytics
for plan management; and an integrated health promotion and wellness
platform from WebMD. At the heart of Workscape's OBA solutions is a 24/7
U.S.-based HR Service Center, which is staffed by experienced benefits
professionals.
About ConnectYourCare
ConnectYourCare's consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) benefit delivery
platform provides a pathway for migration to account-based health plans,
supplying tools for consumers to better manage their healthcare dollars.
ConnectYourCare's core strategy is based upon providing stewardship to its
customers by helping them simplify complex health benefit concepts,
motivate individuals to act, and execute a successful solution, resulting
in long-term health benefit cost containment. Please visit
www.ConnectYourCare.com for more information or call 1-877-495-3341.
About Workscape
Workscape is a leading provider of business-critical HR solutions that
enable hundreds of organizations to manage their two largest workforce
expenditures: employee benefits and performance-driven
compensation. Workscape's offerings share a common technology platform,
can be readily integrated with existing IT investments, serve millions of
employees, and are scalable and configurable to meet the distinct
requirements of organizations ranging from 2,000 to over 400,000
employees. One client uses the company's award-winning multi-lingual
compensation solution to compensate hundreds of thousands of employees
across 70 countries. Workscape's outsourced benefits administration
offerings are backed by U.S.-based 24/7 support for managers and employees
on policies and processes. For more information about Workscape, visit
www.workscape.com or call (888) 605-9620.