Benefits Access Hires Healtheon Corporation.(Brief Article)

National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition, August, 1999

Benefits Access, Inc., a CIGNA company, has announced a strategic relationship with Healtheon Corporation to acquire enhanced Internet capability and data management for BA'S administration and online benefits enrollment services.

Healtheon, based in Santa Clara, Calif., provides Internet-based e-commerce services that link doctors and consumers with health care institutions. Hartford-based BA said the relationship will enable it to provide corporate administrative services, such as benefits eligibility determinations, enrollment and elections management.

BA will adapt Healtheon's Internet-based service to provide employers and employees with benefits management and online enrollment, said a Benefits Access announcement. Healtheon's technology will be...

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