Online Service facilitates COBRA/HIPAA administration.
Press Release Summary:
WebCOBRA allows administrators to perform full-function COBRA administration from any Internet-accessible PC. It offers users opportunity to change approach to COBRA administration, minimizing clerical work performed by administrator and allowing administrator to be relied on more for knowledge of COBRA best practices than for ability to do clerical tasks.
Original Press Release:
Travis Software Announces WebCOBRA-New Internet-Based COBRA/HIPAA System
Houston, Texas February 22, 2005......Travis Software Corp., the leader in desktop and network-based COBRA/HIPAA administration software since 1986, has made its Internet-based COBRA system available via www.WebCOBRA.com.
"WebCOBRA is nothing less than a re-invention of COBRA/HIPAA software," says Alan Williams, President and founder of Travis. "Any benefits administrator with an Internet-accessible PC can perform full-function COBRA administration from wherever they are, whether they are in the HR Department of an employer or doing Cobra administration for clients at a TPA, using the new system. Plus, COBRA qualifying beneficiaries can learn about their benefits status at any time."
WebCOBRA has the functions of the Company's traditional server-based COBRA software system, TravisCobra, which has been available since 1986 and is used by more employers and TPAs/COBRA administrators than any other system. WebCOBRA combines those features with the ease of use and portability of secure, "24/7" access. The system was developed and is supported and updated by Travis, and reflects the results of the Company's 18 years of experience in developing and updating COBRA/HIPAA software. The system is available for as little as $250 per month, including support services..
Release of WebCOBRA.com, is the culmination of a strategy to create a "killer app" within the world of COBRA administration, a technology which will radically change the way that benefit administrators think about the COBRA tools available to them, with the benefit of lowering their costs and improving the ease of use and accessibility of those tools.
WebCOBRA.com is the result three years of development to create the most fully-featured COBRA system ever designed. The system borrows on Travis' 18 years' experience offering COBRA software and providing support to employers and administrators/TPAs that use it.
But WebCOBRA isn't just a COBRA software system migrated to the Internet! WebCOBRA offers its users an opportunity to change the way they approach and perform COBRA administration, reducing the clerical work performed by the administrator and allowing the administrator to be relied on more for their knowledge of COBRA administrative "best practices" than for their ability to do clerical tasks.
WebCOBRA changes the paradigm of COBRA administration.
For example, Employers who are geographically dispersed can have their remote offices personnel login to WebCOBRA and enter new employee and Qualified Beneficiary information, rather than HR department personnel having to enter it at headquarters. TPAs can ask their clients to do the same thing - no more time would be spent by the client entering the data into WebCOBRA than is now spent by the client filling out forms whenever new employees are hired (so that the COBRA General Notice can be printed) or when someone has a qualifying event (so that the COBRA Election Notice can be printed).
Pair WebCOBRA with the "Letter Printing Service" offered by Travis, where letters are printed, signed, folded, stamped and mailed without any involvement by the administrator, and employers and TPAs can also eliminate the need to do the most clerically time-consuming aspect of COBRA administration - the handling of correspondence.
Employers and administrators can see WebCOBRA operate by visiting www.WebCOBRA.com. Demonstrations and free trials of the system are available, by contacting Travis at www.travisoft.com or calling Travis Marketing toll-free at (866) 802- 2312.
