Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Edifecs Expand and Extend Existing National Agreement
Bellevue, WA. October 11, 2005 -- Edifecs, the leading provider of B2B solutions for transaction-based interoperability, today announced it has reached agreement with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) to extend their National Contract as well as expand the partnership arrangement to include Edifecs' entire healthcare product suite. The benefits of the National Contract will be available to all participating Blue Plans across the country.
The products covered under the expanded agreement will now include Edifecs XEngine for transaction validation, splitting, routing and XML conversion, Edifecs SpecBuilder for desktop specification authoring, testing, publishing and companion guide production, test data generation and spec migration, and Edifecs CommerceDesk solutions, including Community Enablement for trading partner ramp and automated testing functions, Transaction Management, and Transaction-based Business Intelligence applications.
Said Don Stachula, Manager, Business Development for the BCBSA, "Our partnership with Edifecs provides BCBS companies with access to technology and applications that can improve data quality, provide speed to market for large scale electronic trading partner communities, and allow for real-time visibility into enterprise transaction data. We are pleased to renew and expand our relationship with Edifecs."
"Edifecs is extremely proud of its relationship with the BCBSA, and is doubly proud to announce the expansion as well as the extension," said Sunny Singh, CEO of Edifecs. "Because so many of the Blue Plans are already Edifecs customers, our new, value-added Transaction Management applications are a logical next step, building on existing Edifecs components, to improve organization real-time business intelligence and responsiveness through access to operational stores of standardized transaction data. Standardized transaction data is a gold standard with which to start these improvement efforts."
About Diversified Data Design Corp.
Founded in 1974 as a physician billing service, DDD transformed into a specialty processor of encounter data more than 15 years ago in order to meet the unique needs of California’s delegated marketplace. DDD currently captures encounters from medical groups, IPAs, hospitals, and various other provider organizations that care for more than 9 million health plan members. In addition, DDD was selected by NCQA to assist in their role as the independent data aggregator for the Integrated Healthcare Association’s Pay for Performance program -- the nation’s largest performance-based rewards initiative. For more information, visit www.dddcorp.com or contact DDD at (310) 973-2880.
About Edifecs
Edifecs is the proven provider of B2B solutions for transaction-based interoperability. Edifecs solves the interoperability problem by enabling, managing and deriving business value from standard electronic transactions within trading partner communities. Our standards-independent B2B applications include Community Enablement, Transaction Management, and Transaction based Business Intelligence. Edifecs provides solutions for over 1600 customers including 200 in healthcare. Founded in 1996, Edifecs is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. Company website: www.edifecs.com.
About Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is an association of independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, called Plans. Each Plan operates independently and contracts with local hospital and physicians to provide their customers with benefits for medical care costs. All Plans are members of BCBSA, which licenses to the Plans the right to use the Blue Cross and Blue Shield names and symbols. Together, the independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) Plans provide health care financing for more than 91million people. BCBSA also serves as a trade association and a contractor to the federal government.
