Texas Mutual Selects Jopari Solutions for Electronic Billing Compliance Services
State's Leading Workers' Compensation Carrier Will Use Integrated Medical EDI Gateway To Meet Texas Medical Data Exchange Regulations Effective January 2008
AUSTIN, Texas and CONCORD, Calif., Sept. 25 / - Texas Mutual Insurance Company will begin enterprise wide electronic medical bill processing as of January 2008 to comply with workers' compensation electronic billing requirements mandated by the Texas Department of Insurance. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state's leading workers' compensation carrier, is deploying an integrated Medical EDI Gateway supplied by Jopari Solutions to assure compliance with jurisdictional electronic billing formats, provider communications, and processing requirements.
Jopari's EDI Gateway incorporates Texas jurisdictional business rules and data validation for secure transmission of electronic medical billing and payment data. The EDI Gateway will also offer compliant bill submission services to health care providers who are required to submit their bills electronically in a state-approved ANSI X12N 837 format. Jopari also provides a Provider Portal that allows electronic bill and attachment upload, online bill correction, direct-bill data entry, bill status monitoring and flexible remittance advice delivery options, including compliant ANSI 835 Remittance Advices. Jopari will also offer data conversion services for providers who need assistance generating and submitting electronic bills and attachments to Texas Mutual Insurance Company.
Commenting on the Gateway arrangements with Jopari, Jeanette Ward, Vice President of Claim & Information Support Services said, "As the leading workers' compensation carrier in Texas, we required an electronic billing solution that conforms to Texas rules and is easily accessible to our health care providers. Jopari Solutions' Medical EDI Gateway will enable our providers to benefit from this new technology, while giving us a compliance strategy that achieves the legislature's goal of leveraging electronic billing technology to reduce costs in the Texas workers' compensation system."
Jopari's Senior Vice President Jim Grim added, "Jopari is extremely pleased with our emerging relationship with Texas Mutual. Jopari has the right combination of people, technology and industry knowledge to ensure success - and being selected by the leading payer in the first market to adopt electronic billing mandates validates that position. We look forward to working with Texas Mutual and continuing to set the standards in the electronic billing processing space."
Texas health care providers should register for TMI electronic billing services by contacting Jopari at toll free: 866-269-0554.
ABOUT TEXAS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
Texas Mutual Insurance Company is the state's leading provider of workers' compensation insurance. More than 46,000 Texas employers and their 831,000 employees count on us to be there for them every day. We respond with cost-saving claim management techniques, comprehensive safety programs, innovative online services and group discount programs for a wide range of industries. Visit www.texasmutual.com/ for more information. We're here for Texas, and we're here to stay.
ABOUT JOPARI SOLUTIONS, INC.
Jopari Solutions, Inc. (http://www.jopari.com/) supplies integrated e-Bill compliance and payment solutions to workers' compensation, auto, and health insurance industry payers. Jopari significantly improves the technology Payers use to manage bills and disbursements, and substantially reduces associated expenses. Jopari services enable insurance Payers to comply fully with regulatory requirements, including e-Bill and e-Pay jurisdictional initiatives, and HIPAA. Insurance and other industry Payers take advantage of JopariPay(TM) to permanently downsize processing and labor costs, increase operational competitiveness and realize immediate returns on investment.
Source: Jopari Solutions, Inc.
CONTACT: John Roberts of Jopari Solutions, Inc., +1-925-459-5218, john_roberts@jopari.com
Web site: www.jopari.com
