Pediatric Associates Health Plan Press Releases August 09, 2007
Pediatric Associates Health Plan selects ika Group for Its
Online Medical Management Systems with Providers
Pediatric Associates Health Plan, a Medicaid health plan
exclusivity for children, has entered into an agreement to
implement ika Groups’ web-based
iProHEDIS which is a
comprehensive transactional Health Employer Data
Information Set (HEDIS) reporting system that will
significantly enhance quality of service to members,
reduce administrative costs and provide a competitive edge
in the health insurance industry.
HEDIS performance is reported by each Primary Care
Physician (PCP) including the list of members due for each
measure to facilitate the PCP in administering the
required measures. At the health plan level, it identifies
PCPs and their members due for HEDIS measures so medical
management staff can coordinate between PCPs and members
to increase scores.
“Providing real time online information on eligible
members for HEDIS measures involves complex metrics and
extensive medical intelligence and since the PCP is the
key, we provide this information to PCPs to perform and to
the medical management staff to coordinate such care” says
Solomon J. Zak, MD, Sr. VP, Medical and Business
Intelligence at ika Group.
“At ika Group, we constantly innovate and apply existing
state-of-the art portal platform technology and such an
innovation is iProHEDIS, which can substantially reduce
chart review costs and yet well exceed national HEDIS
benchmark criteria.”
About Pediatric Associates Health Plan
Pediatric Associates Health Plan currently operates in
Broward County, Florida. As the only Medicaid health plan
in Florida exclusively for children, its mission is to
help children be healthy, happy, and safe. The health plan
is owned and directed by local pediatricians and managed
by AmeriHealth Mercy. AmeriHealth Mercy and its affiliates
comprise the largest family of Medicaid managed care plans
in the United States, touching the lives of over 2 million
members nationwide. AmeriHealth Mercy specializes in
providing management care services and management for
publicly funded programs, with special expertise in
Medicaid, Medicare and State Children’s Health Insurance
Programs (SCHIP). For more information on Pediatrics
Associates and AmeriHealth Mercy, please visit
www.papsn.com and
www.amerihealthmercy.com.
About ika Group
ika Group is a leading provider of web-based ERP solutions
for the managed care industry. Based in Southborough,
Massachusetts, ika Group offers a broad spectrum of
software solutions, outsourcing, and consulting services.
The iEnterprise System is ika Group’s flagship product. It
is a full-service, comprehensive system that automates all
the key transactions in the managed care cycle. The system
consists of five standalone, self-service web portals that
are tightly integrated with core transactional systems:
claims, disease and utilization management, medical and
business intelligence, HEDIS® reporting, and
consumer-directed healthcare. This integrated solution
provides a comprehensive web-based infrastructure for
healthcare organizations, insurance carriers, and third
party administrators.
April 03, 2007
Presbyterian Health Plan's implements ika Groups'
iEnterprise suite as a total solution for its individual
business administration.
Southborough (April 3, 2007) - Presbyterian Health Plan (PHP)
went live on April 2, 2007 after completing the first
phase of its implementation of the iEnterprise solution
suite for its individual business line. As a result PHP
has effectively streamlined and automated a number
processes including sales, underwriting, enrollment and
customer service functions related to sales. The system's
automated underwriting module enables PHP to sell to
prospective members without any human hands touching the
application - completely automating all processes from the
initial quote to a HIPAA compliant 834 feed to its claims
system.
As part of the next phase PHP will implement iEnterprise's
off-cycle changes, e-billing and commissions management
modules. PHP will also incorporate ika Group' robust sales
force automation module into the system, which will
provide the necessary competitive advantage in a more
retail oriented environment.
This is one of the many steps PHP is taking to achieve its
strategic objectives to improve business agility in the
sales, underwriting and administrative processes of its
commercial business lines.
PHP's next steps will be to implement
iEnterprise to
streamline and automate the sales, underwriting and a
majority of the administrative processes of its small and
large group businesses, enabling it to automate a number
of other important processes as well such as renewal
rating and financial forecasting.
About Presbyterian Health Plan
Presbyterian Health Plan serves more than 400,000
commercial, Medicare and Medicaid members throughout New
Mexico and is the state's largest health plan. PHP is part
of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, a private,
not-for-profit integrated delivery system and the state's
largest provider of care. For more information, visit
www.phs.org.
About ika Group
ika Group is a leading provider of web-based ERP solutions
for the managed care industry. Based in Southborough,
Massachusetts, ika Group offers a broad spectrum of
software solutions, outsourcing, and consulting services.
The iEnterprise System is ika Groups' flagship product. It
is a full-service, comprehensive system that automates all
the key transactions in the managed care cycle. The system
consists of five standalone, self-service web portals that
are tightly integrated with core transactional systems:
claims, disease and utilization management, medical and
business intelligence, HEDIS® reporting, and
consumer-directed healthcare. This integrated solution
provides a comprehensive web-based infrastructure for
healthcare organizations, insurance carriers, and third
party administrators.
December 08, 2006
Unity Health increases enrollment and renewal process
efficiency with iEnterprise system
SAUK CITY, WI - Dec. 7, 2006 – ika Group of Companies
today announced that Unity Health Insurance of Sauk City
processed 100 renewals in about 20 minutes - right after
the renewal module of the Sales Portal went live on Nov.
21.
Implementation discussions for the iEnterprise System,
which replaced manual paper-based processes at Unity,
began in December 2005. The Sales, Underwriting and Admin
Portals went live July 11. The Employer and Member Portals
went live in October, and the Sales Portal went live in
November. The self-service web portals represent the
iEnterprise System, which is designed to streamline and
automate a health plan's business processes. These include
quoting and proposal generation, plan selection,
application submission and medical underwriting. The
health plan chose a license model, enabling it to maintain
the web portals completely on its own.
For health plans, one key way to increase profitability is
to streamline the plan renewal process. This process can
be automated to a great degree by iEnterprise. The
system's Sales Portal provides pre-renewal and batch
renewal notifications to support the processes. It creates
renewal and proposal documents and features customizable
templates that are clear and easy to understand. It also
generates and coordinates the distribution of renewal or
policy change information, quickly informing brokers of a
group's status.
According to Radovan Bursac, Vice President of Finance for
Unity, brokers and internal sales representatives for the
health plan previously managed renewals by manually
entering data into an Excel spreadsheet and reviewing it
periodically. Now, the Sales Portal calculates renewal
information from a feed from Unity's database, informing
the broker by automatic alerts when a group is up for
renewal.
"It takes only 20 minutes, so we are saving 25 to 30 hours
on that manual portion of the process," says Bursac.
"Initially, we hadn't chosen the portals because of the
renewal automation," Bursac continues. "But the efficiency
we have gained on the renewal side is extraordinary, and
greatly exceeds our expectations when it comes to
providing us with the ability to retain and bring in new
business."
In addition, Unity is now seeing gains in quoting volume
since the Sales Portal went live. Internal sales
representatives and brokers used the Sales Portal to
process quotes, and groups are now using the enrollment
capabilities of the Member Portal since the portal went
live in October.
"We can see that a tremendous amount of efficiency can be
gained here," says Bursac.
Since the Underwriting Portal went live, underwriters no
longer have to use an Excel spreadsheet to conduct the
rating process. The module's rating engine now
automatically configures rates for underwriters.
The paper-based system at Unity was in need of vast
improvement. Unity selected ikaSystems' Sales,
Underwriting, Admin, Broker, Employer and Member Portals
because of their ability to bring extraordinary efficiency
to the managed-care cycle.
"We are exceptionally pleased with the results, and we
will continue to see improvements from it," says Bursac.
"We are getting new quoting activity, and ultimately this
will bring more membership."
About Unity
Unity Health is a locally owned and operated health
insurer based in Sauk City, WI. As a part of UW Health,
Unity provides its members with access to a comprehensive
provider network that includes UW Health and regional
physicians, as well as the University of Wisconsin
Hospital and clinics and community hospitals located
throughout the southwestern Wisconsin service area. Unity
offers a variety of health insurance products and
member-focused wellness and disease management programs
through individual health insurance products, commercial
employer-based health insurance and government plans. For
more information visit
www.unityhealth.com.
About ika Group
ika Group, based in Southborough, MA, is focused on
providing managed care organizations, third party
administrators (TPAs), Medicare, and Medicaid with
enterprise-wide, off-the-shelf technology designed to
automate key transactions and business processes in the
managed care cycle. The iEnterprise System is a single,
comprehensive system comprised of five self-service Web
portals that are tightly integrated with business
intelligence and transactional systems: core claims
adjudication, disease and utilization management, HEDIS®
reporting, and consumer directed health care.
December 04, 2006
Parkview Health Plan Services Improves
Auto-Adjudication Rate With ika Group' iClaims Solution
FORT WAYNE, IN - Dec. 4, 2006 - ika Group today announced
that the iClaims system went live at Parkview Health Plan
Services on Monday, Oct. 30 as the first batch of EDI
claims was smoothly processed. Implementation for the
solution, which replaced a legacy system at Parkview,
began March 1, 2006.
iClaims is a rule-based system that allows health plans to
upload benefit plans and provider contracts online. It
includes more than 13 comprehensive modules and provides a
comprehensive physician profiling system that defines the
total health plan's quality vs. the performance of each
individual primary care physician.
For health plans, one way of streamlining claims
processing is to increase the adjudication rate. With
iClaims, benefit plans and provider contracts are inserted
online at a very high level of granularity. This enables
the system to auto adjudicate claims in the 95% range.
Parkview Health Plan Services was in need of an efficient
claims processing system, and it selected
iClaims. The
health plan chose an ASP model, so the hardware and
software maintenance for the solution is completely
handled at ika Group ' headquarters in Southborough, MA.
This enables Parkview employees and users to utilize the
portals and solutions with an Internet connection from
anywhere in the world. Meanwhile, the solutions' EDI
transactions have streamlined processes and greatly
reduced the need for manual data entry.
The iClaims system now completely automates claims
processing at Parkview. According to Philip Henneman,
Director of Clinical and Technical Operations for Health
Plan Services, Parkview's legacy claims system featured a
sluggish auto-adjudication engine that utilized an
inferior and obsolete programming language. By comparison,
the iClaims system provides a newer platform that allows
more flexibility for configuring benefits and provider
contracts, resulting in significantly increased
auto-adjudication rates. ika Group quickly migrated and
converted all of the data from the legacy system into the
iClaims system. Whereas Parkview's legacy system produced
auto adjudication rates of about 30 to 40% of only one
segment of claims, the iClaims system provided
auto-adjudication rates of 80 to 85% during its first EDI
load. Henneman says Parkview now expects the
iClaims
system to consistently provide auto-adjudication rates of
90 to 95%.
"The flexibility of the iClaims adjudication engine is
something that we are excited about," says Henneman. "Many
times, with the old system, we had to manually process
claims. With the ika Group solution, this will no longer
be necessary."
ika Group also integrated the
iClaims system with Parkview
Health's Optical Character Recognition software. This
useful tool helps claims processors at Parkview identify a
specific claim by image. The iClaims system also provided
Parkview with innovative tools that are helping the health
plan take a creative approach to profitable contracting
and negotiating pricing agreements with employer groups
and provider networks. These are enabling Parkview to
offer a variety of products and provider networks to
employer groups. ika Group integrated its call center with
all of the modules in the iClaims system, helping Parkview
Health's customer service representatives resolve appeals
and grievances quickly and accurately.
In addition, Parkview selected the Member and Employer web
portals, which are part of the iEnterprise System. Testing
is now being completed. The Member and Employer portals
integrate business processes, enable the plan to collate
key information into one system and empower users to make
more effective strategic, tactical and operational
decisions.
The Member and Employer Portals will enable groups that
join Parkview Health Plan Services to select their
coverage plans online. This will eliminate many manual,
paper-based processes and significantly reduce the health
plan's administrative costs. Henneman says Parkview will
use the Employer Portal to promote Signature Care, its
regional PPO plan, which will enable the health plan to
gain new membership. By using the Employer Portal, the
Parkview Health Human Resources Department will be
relieved of all the manual work involved in the
administration of employee benefits.
"The Employer Portal will allow for open enrollment," says
Henneman. "Prior to this, we did everything manually. Now,
these processes will be completed electronically. This
will allow for fewer errors."
About Parkview
Parkview Health is a not-for- profit, community owned
system that is a major Northeast Indiana health care
provider. Parkview Health owns seven hospitals with 777
beds and has more than 6,100 employees. Health Plan
Services administers the Parkview owned Signature Care PPO
with 9,000 providers throughout the State of Indiana and
60,000 members. For more information visit
www.parkviewhealth.com
About ika Group
ika Group, based in Southborough, MA, is focused on
providing managed care organizations, third party
administrators (TPAs), Medicare, and Medicaid with
enterprise-wide, off-the-shelf technology designed to
automate key transactions and business processes in the
managed care cycle. The iEnterprise System is a single,
comprehensive system comprised of five self-service web
portals that are tightly integrated with business
intelligence and transactional systems: core claims
adjudication, disease and utilization management, HEDIS®
reporting, and consumer directed health care.
June 12, 2006
Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, Inc. (CDPHP)
Selects ika Group' Total Business Solution for its Small
and Large Group Products
Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, Inc. (CDPHP) has
entered into an agreement to purchase ika Group
Web-enabled portals, and is implementing ika Group' Sales
and Admin Portal technology as a total solution for its
small and large group businesses. CDPHP believes that the
iEnterprise System is a proven, robust, and feature-rich
next generation Web portal system that will help
significantly reduce administrative costs and provide a
competitive advantage in the health insurance industry.
"We had originally thought of choosing a CRM vendor, but
realized immediately that implementing a CRM driven
solution was similar to the cart pushing the horse,"
explains Dave Henderson, senior vice president marketing
and chief marketing officer (CMO), CDPHP. " ika Group'
robust portal technology platform will connect our health
plan staff, brokers, employers, and members in real time,
and will simplify the entire small and large group sales
and renewal cycle. The system will streamline our business
processes including health insurance quote and proposal
generation, plan selection, application submission,
medical underwriting, enrollment online, renewals,
e-billing, and membership management, and will provide our
underwriters extensive rating and rate maintenance
capabilities."
"We also chose ika Group for their detailed knowledge of
health plan business processes and flexible implementation
methodology," adds Henderson. "As a health plan widely
known for its award winning products and services, we seek
to work with organizations that place a similar value on
quality and flexibility, as we do."
About CDPHP
Founded and guided by physicians, Capital District
Physicians' Health Plan, Inc. and its affiliates currently
serve members in 29 counties throughout New York State and
seven counties in Vermont. In 2005, CDPHP's HMO was ranked
number one in member satisfaction for the seventh
consecutive year by the New York State Health
Accountability Foundation (NYSHAF), and was also rated the
fifth fastest growing large company by the Albany Business
Review.
CDPHP's four affiliated companies include a family of
products: Capital District Physicians' Health Plan,
Inc.-HMO (AvidCare®), Healthy New York, Medicare Choice,
Medicaid, Child Health Plus, and Family Health Plus. CDPHP
Universal Benefits Inc.® - PPO (AchievaCare®), HSA High
Deductible PPO, POS (AdaptaCare®), and EPO (AttentiCareT).
Capital District Physicians' Healthcare Network, Inc.-AssociaCare®,
self-insured plans; and APA Partners, Inc.-third party
administration (TPA). Visit CDPHP at
www.cdphp.com.
About ika Group
ika Group is a leading provider of web-based ERP solutions
for the managed care industry. Based in Southborough,
Massachusetts, ika Group offers a broad spectrum of
software solutions, outsourcing, and consulting services.
The iEnterprise System is ika Group' flagship product. It
is a full-service, comprehensive system that automates all
the key transactions in the managed care cycle. The system
consists of five standalone, self-service web portals that
can be tightly integrated with business intelligence and
transactional systems: core claims adjudication, disease
and utilization management, medical and business
intelligence, HEDIS® reporting, and consumer-directed
healthcare. This integrated solution provides a web-based
infrastructure for healthcare organizations, insurance
carriers, and third party administrators.
March 31, 2006
Parkview Health Plan Services to implement the
iEnterprise System as its total Technology Outsourcing
Solution
Parkview Health Plan Services (HPS) a division of Parkview
Health has contracted with ika Group to implement its
iEnterprise system as a technology outsourcing solution.
Parkview Health is a not-for- profit, community owned
system that is a major Northeast Indiana health care
provider. Parkview Health owns seven hospitals with 777
beds and has more than 6,100 employees. Health Plan
Services administers the Parkview owned Signature Care PPO
with 9,000 providers throughout the State of Indiana and
60,000 members.
"We are excited about implementing the
iEnterprise system
as a technology solution for our health plan," says Philip
Henneman, director of clinical and technical operations
for Health Plan Services. "We have chosen carefully. By
far, ika Group offers the most comprehensive solution on
the market today."
ika Group will install the entire
iEnterprise System,
which consists of five self-service portals and a series
of business and transactional systems: core claims
adjudication, disease management, utilization management
and HEDIS® reporting in record time.
"Selecting ika Group was an excellent choice, not only in
terms of functionality but also in terms of their
excellent history of customer service," says Henneman. "In
a project of this size and this importance it is difficult
to detail all the necessary functionality, but we are
confident that ika Group will provide all necessary extra
functionality and customization."
The ika Group platform is a powerful and scalable HIPAA-compliant
n-tier infrastructure that will support Parkview Health
Plan Services' current and future business requirements.
"The back-end business intelligence and transactional
system streamlines daily HPS processes such as
authorizations, claims adjudication, medical management,
utilization management and front-end transactions by
members, employers, providers and brokers," says Ravi Ika,
president and CEO of ika Group.
"ika Group' technology will be an integral part of our
business, and our goal is to continue to add ika Group'
functionality to our environment as our business
requirements change," says Henneman. "With the ika Group
platform there is no need for additional software
systems."
"The iEnterprise system's capability to configure a
variety of different provider, hospital, facility
contracts and benefit plans automatically-rather than
manually-will make for a smooth implementation," says
Henneman. "Plus, ika Group offers practically limitless
flexibility in the pricing and benefit systems, which will
enable the smooth configuration of HPS business rules into
the system."
About ika Group
ika Group is a leading provider of Web-based ERP solutions
for the managed care industry. Based in Southborough, MA,
ika Group offers a broad spectrum of software solutions,
outsourcing, and consulting services.
The iEnterprise system is ika Group' flagship product. It
is a full-service, comprehensive system that automates all
the key transactions in the managed care cycle. The system
consists of five stand-alone, self-service Web portals
that are tightly integrated with business intelligence and
transactional systems: core claims adjudication, disease
and utilization management, medical and business
intelligence, HEDIS® reporting and consumer-directed
healthcare. This integrated solution provides a Web-based
infrastructure for healthcare organizations, insurance
carriers and third party administrators.
March 10, 2006
Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic
States Selects ikaInternational
Group’ Total Business Solution for
its Individual Product
Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States is implementing
ikaInternational
Group’ Sales and Admin Portal technology
as a total solution for its individual business. ikaInternational
Group’ robust technology platform connects
brokers and consumers through an automated application
process that includes web-based health insurance quote
generation, online application submission, and back-end
support for medical underwriting.
“We are excited to expand our online capabilities
with ikaInternational
Group. This partnership will give our applicants
access to the next level of customer service and enhance
their ability to compare our plans in order to make
informed health care choices,” explains Thomas
A. Curtin, vice president of marketing, strategy and
business development.
The ikaInternational
Group platform will enable Kaiser Permanente
to increase sales of their individual product and
decrease administrative costs associated with manual
health insurance application processing.
Through the Sales portal, brokers can access critical information online in real-time and respond faster to customers’ needs to see dynamic views of health insurance options, which is imperative for success in today’s marketplace. Brokers can direct consumers to Kaiser Permanente’s consumer portal, where consumers can compare plans and apply for coverage online. This directed approach enables brokers to channel business toward Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States’ consumer portal. Consumers can then compare plans and apply for coverage online.
Integrating the consumer and broker pieces of the
application process provides online collaboration,
which will increase consumer interest in Kaiser Permanente’s
offerings and increase sales. Administrative costs
will decrease as well.
Kaiser Permanente of Georgia Implements Web-Enabled Consumer Portal for its Personal Advantage Product
Consumers can now apply online for health insurance
through Kaiser Permanente of Georgia’s Personal
Advantage online consumer portal, which is powered
by the Massachusetts-based ikaInternational
Group’ enterprise-wide technology platform
– the ikaEnterprise System. Kaiser
Permanente’s Personal Advantage product has
several plan offerings targeting the individual market.
“Since implementing the portal just over a month
ago, we’ve received 1,116 Personal Advantage
applications,” said Nancy Melton, Kaiser Permanente’s
Personal Advantage Product Manager. “This represents
a significant increase over any previous month in
the past year.”
“Consumer response to Kaiser Permanente’s
online application process has been positive. Since
launching ikaInternational
Group’ technology, support calls from
consumers regarding the application process have significantly
decreased and the online application process has vastly
improved,” said Melton. “The ikaInternational
Group’ robust online functionality
is enabling us to far exceed consumer expectations.”
Kaiser Permanente’s Personal Advantage online portal connects brokers and consumers through an automated application process that includes web-based health insurance quote generation, online application submission, and back-end support for medical underwriting. Integrating the consumer and broker pieces of the application process provides online collaboration. Registered brokers can initiate a quote on the consumer’s behalf, and in effect, create a “blue-print” of suggested plans. The broker can then send an e-mail to the consumer that contains a link to the consumer portal. This directed approach enables brokers to channel business toward Kaiser Permanente’s Personal Advantage consumer portal. Consumers can then compare plans and apply for coverage online.
ikaInternational
Group teams with Synergetics to jointly
win the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Seaport
Enhanced program for providing expertise in
IT projects and services ranging from design
and development of image based computer systems,
Geographic Information Systems, large scale
corporate wide web and database applications.
ikaInternational
Group is supporting Synergetics in
Research and Development Support, Modeling,
Simulation, Stimulation, and Analysis Support,
System Design Documentation and Technical Data
Support, Software Engineering, Development,
Programming, and Network Support, Reliability,
Maintainability, and Availability (RM&A)
Support, Configuration Management (CM) Support,
Quality Assurance (QA) Support, Information
System (IS) Development, Information Assurance
(IA), and Information Technology (IT) Support,
Program Support and Administrative Support .
ikaInternational
Group is currently teaming with EDS
on the Veteran's Health Administration (VHS)
Veterans Health Information Systems & Technology
Architecture (VistA) Care Management or HealtheVet
Networking Support.
ikaInternational
Group is pleased to announce that it
has been selected by EDS as a team participant
for the VHA Office of Information Health Systems
Design and Development effort to assist in the
re-engineering and migration effort which involves
moving a host of the Veteran’s Information
Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA)
software applications from a MUMPS environment
to a J2EE Service Oriented architecture (SOA).
ikaInternational
Group Information Technology (IT) services
business unit today announced that it has been
chosen by CACI the Federal Prime Contractor
to provide IT Consulting Services.
ikaInternational
Group was recently selected by the Federal Prime
Contractor CACI to be a provider of IT consulting
and support services through its Recruitment
Services Vendor Program. As a result of the
CACI’s preferred Vendor, GWI is now eligible
to provide a broad range of technology services
such as project and network management, application
development, system and operations support,
technical support services, database management,
program design, and multi-media applications
to CACI.
ikaInternational
Group highly qualified resources shall
assist CACI in all levels its consulting requirements
in meeting their IT goals. “We are pleased
to add the federal prime contracting CACI to
our growing list of government clients.”
The Department
of the Interior - National Business Center Re-awards
ikaInternational
Group as a Sole Source Contractor for
"Quarters Management Information Systems (QMIS)"
Software
ikaInternational
Group has been selected by the Department
of the Interior - National Business Center (DoI-NBC)
to design, install and test their "Quarters
Management Information Systems (QMIS)" software
for calculating rents for approximately twenty
thousand government occupied housing managed
by twenty-three government client agencies through
about 500-users.
ikaInternational
Group is to evaluate the present system
upgrade methodology at the DoI-NBC and provide
initial recommendations. ikaInternational
Group will then followed a design of
the solution implementation.
ikaInternational Group announced today that it has been awarded a competitive task order contract as partner to SRA, to provide a broad range of advanced information technology (IT) services and solutions to the National Guard Bureau Chief Information Officer and Reserve Component. The task order, awarded under the U.S. Department of Transportation's Information Technology Omnibus Procurement II (ITOP II) contract, has an estimated contract value of $115 million over five years if all options are exercised. ITOP II is a multiple award contract vehicle for IT services that is available for government use.
ikaInternational Group and Northrop Grumman partnership won FAA invoicing automation pact valued at $79.6 million.
ikaInternational Group has been selected by Northrop Grumman Defense Enterprise Systems for the Invoicing and Financing Contract Management System (IFMS) Contract valued at $79.6 million for 15 years. The oversight Agencies is the FAA. The IFMS contract is a performance-based contract designed by the FAA to build a new web-based IFMS system, integrating all existing telecommunication invoice and reconciliation packages within the IBM Websphere environment.
ikaInternational Group will provide wide range of expertise including information maintenance and technical support to FAA users nationwide. This newly developed system will result in an estimated $2 million dollar savings in the FAA budget per year. The telecomm environment will also be significantly impacted and result in multiple million savings over the next 15 years.
ikaInternational Group and CSC partnership wins US Army CECOM Rapid Response Program contract valued at $700 million.
The team of ikaInternational Group and CSC is one of eight teams that have been awarded the U.S. Army’s Rapid Response Program Government-wide Acquisition Contract. The contract, sponsored by the Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM), will provide rapid support to agencies across the government. The estimated value of the agreement is approximately $700 million over eight years. Contract ceiling value for all eight teams is estimated at $3 billion.
ikaInternational
Group has been selected by TAC Worldwide
Companies (TAC) to manage its contract
Consulting Program for Nextel Communications.
The ikaInternational Group has been selected by TAC Worldwide Companies (TAC) to manage they contract Consulting Program for Nextel Communications. Being providing on-site, contract consulting management programs since 1996. We directly and indirectly manage $18 million in consulting and technical services for various clients World Wide.
TAC, a global consulting and technical services company with approximately $1 billion annual revenue, TAC is the largest privately held consulting company in the United States.
Nextel Communications, Inc. based in Reston, VA, is the leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the United States covering thousands of communities across the United States. Nextel and Nextel Partners, Inc., currently serve 96 of the top 100 U.S. markets.
Managing contract-consulting operations from; order fulfillment, timekeeping, along with assignments tracking end-to-end system solutions. ikaInternational Group has partnered with TAC-Nextel to design a customized full-service program that facilitates the procurement, management and tracking of Nextel Contract/temporary employees.
ikaInternational
Group releases ikaCarrier
3.0 version for distribution to small
and medium size insurance carriers.
The ikaCarrier is an end-to-end system designed and developed for insurance Carriers to transact business on-line. ikaCarrier comprised of three levels of hierarchy; Broker, Regional Manager, and Business Administrator, which gives an ultimate power to carriers to transact business on-line with common rules and platform. The functionality at the Broker level is very comprehensive offering Client and Prospect contact management, single source for data entry along with permanent record keeping, instantaneous quotes of rates and benefits, multiple products, multiple benefit options in a comprehensive proposal ready to be delivered to the client instantaneously.
ikaCarrier can be customized and implemented at the Carrier location or run and maintained at ikaInternational Group on an ASP basis. You can now own the same online technology that is being utilized by the largest insurers for a fraction of the cost.
ikaInternational Group signs a multi year contract with Infolynx/IBM to provide IT Consulting Services.
ikaInternational Group will provide IT Consulting services nationwide for all the IBM facilities for a variety of technologies including; Client Server, UNIX, Internet/Intranet, Web Servers, Middleware, Data Bases, Groupware, ERP and CRM.
ikaInternational Group now offers Commission System Version 3.0 to insurance companies and financial services firms on an ASP model.
ikaInternational Group now offers ikaCommission System Version 3.0 to insurance companies and financial services firms on an ASP model: user defined commission workflow will be translated to rules and take charge of commission payment process in a matter of days. ikaCommission is a web-based system, which automates the entire commission payment workflow for insurance companies and financial services firms and producers. ikaCommission System is very dynamic, flexible, and rules based, so that the user can define the rules to accommodate any payment methods, commission splits, and multiple levels of override and bonus calculations or any special incentives like vacations and material rewards, for which producers are entitled. Maintains all information, clients, carriers, agencies, and brokers in a structured database, so that the report generation at any level is instantaneous. ikaCommission eliminates the entire paper process at the insurance companies, financial service firms, and producers’ office; information could be accessed on-line any time in a highly secured environment.
Insurance companies and Brokerage Agencies will no longer be inundated with calls to check on commission’s status. Producers simply login and get precise information on past and present transactions. Producers and General Agents can generate custom reports on any aspect of the commission process. System supports secured protocols. Private labeling and branding options are available.
ikaInternational Group develops an online rating engine and broker portal for CBSA Corporate Benefit Services of America, Inc. www.cbsainc.com
ikaInternational
Group has converted the CBSA's single
user system to the multi threaded, multi
user ActiveX component on the web, which
can generate rates and proposals in real
time. Through the implementation of this
broker portal, a web-Insurance Mall developed
by ikaInternational
Group for Lincoln Financial Group’s
group benefit operation, nine thousand
Lincoln brokers are accessing CBSA's products
on-line. This online quoting and proposal
generation system has an interactive exchange
platform, which enables quoting, re-quoting,
and multiple product and benefit options
to be displayed in a proposal ready to
be delivered to the client.
CBSA is a full-service Third Party Administrator (TPA) of employee benefit plans. In addition to custom designing self-funded medical plans, CBSA offers a variety of fully insured products underwritten by reputable insurance carriers. Medical Management services, including utilization review and large case management, are provided through Managed Care 2000, a fully integrated in-house service. Specialized administrative services are provided for the requirements of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Flexible Benefit Compensation Plans are also established and administered. A number of ancillary products such as dental, disability, and life insurance are available as additions to CBSA administered medical benefit plans or as stand-alone coverage’s.
ikaInternational
Group develops an online rating engine
and broker portal for HealthMarket an
American Travelers Assurance Company
Through the implementation
of this broker portal, a web-Insurance
Mall developed for Lincoln Financial Group’s
group benefit operation, nine thousand
Lincoln brokers are accessing HealthMarket
products on-line. This online quoting
and proposal generation system has an
interactive exchange platform, which enables
quoting, re-quoting, and multiple product
and benefit options to be displayed in
a proposal ready to be delivered to the
client.
HealthMarket was founded in 1999 as an innovative alternative to managed care. HealthMarket puts members and their doctors back in control of their healthcare decisions. In December 2000, HealthMarket received first place honors from the Anderson Consulting Group, Ltd, and the Center for Business Innovation. The award recognizes the companies judged to be best positioned to thrive in a highly competitive environment.
ikaInternational Group signs a contract with Raytheon to provide Consulting Services. www.raytheon.com
ikaInternational Group has been selected by Raytheon for consulting services in the following areas Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Management, Security Engineering, Quality Engineering, Network Engineering, Computer Security and Engineering, Systems Administration.
ikaInternational Group signs a five-year contract with Computer Science Corporation (CSC) to provide support for DFAS project of Department of
Defense. www.csc.com
ikaInternational Group signs a five-year contract with Computer Science Corporation. The Focus of this contract is; support CSC DFISS team as an “Associate Supplier”. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Defense (DOD) and Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS),
Defense Finance Integrated Support Services (DFISS). This is an ID/IQ contract totaling approximately $150 million dollars and provides a full range of IT and automated data processing services to DOD finance and military organizations. There has been a clause added to the contract that allows for other Federal agencies to expand on this particular contract and utilize the same services within a pre-determined time frame.
ikaInternational Group signs a multiyear contract with Lockheed Martin/Alltech International to provide services in Strategic Airport Security Rollout (SASR) Project. www.lockheedmartin.com
As a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin/Alltech International, ikaInternational Group provides support services to the Strategic Airport Security Rollout (SASR) Project totaling $350 million. SASR team with the mission of upgrading US airports to help protect the integrity and security of US. There are over 430 airports in the United States and US Territories that will be significantly improved by the project and ikaInternational Group is proud to be a major part of this Homeland Security Defense effort.
ikaInternational Group team will upgrade passenger security measures at airports and help convert passenger screening operations throughout the U.S. to federal control by implementing the master coordination plan and rollout schedule that it developed under Phase 1 of the program. The work will involve discrete procedures, tailored to individual airports, and affect security for passenger screening. Passenger screening lanes at security checkpoints inside airports will be reconfigured; if needed, screening equipment, such as metal detectors, x-ray machines, video cameras and hand wands will be upgraded or replaced.
ikaInternational Group team provides solutions in systems integration, program management, software development, and information security for a variety of customers including U.S. and international defense and civil government agencies.
ikaInternational Group activates all Lincoln Group Insurance Offices across the nation.
Group One Source (GOS)
an affiliate of Lincoln sells group insurance.
ikaInternational
Group is the exclusive provider of the
e-platform to GOS. GOS has approximately
fifteen thousand groups in force with
over $900 million dollars of premium.
GOS has nine thousand producers and over
fifty locations through out the country
The Employee Benefit Specialist Managers
(EBSM) of GOS manages the group operations
for the Lincoln Financial Group.
The GOS Mission: Providing brokers with a single source platform of multi-carrier employee benefits products. Our mission is to provide brokers with superior service and sales expertise. Group One Source offers the same services as the individual companies local sales offices in respect to commissions, rates, and product literature. We can provide all these services to you at no additional premium to your clients
ikaInternational Group was selected as a Finalist for Ernst & Young 2002 New England Entrepreneur Of The Year Award.
Entrepreneurs begin with a dream – a vision of “what could be”. They cultivate the vision of creativity and success. Committing their energy, time and sometimes life savings to nurture its growth. Enduring unforeseen obstacles and the mercurial economy, these men and women are driven by passion – the passion to successfully transform vision in to reality.
Mr. ika was selected as a finalist in two of the categories: Master Entrepreneur & Technology Entrepreneur. Sixty-one of New England’s most dynamic entrepreneurs demonstrate their vision, courage, endurance and passion as Ernst & Young profiles the 16th Annual Entrepreneur Of The Year finalists and award recipients. The Entrepreneur Of The Year Award program was founded in 1987 is produced by Ernst & Young and nationally co-sponsored by USA Today, CNN, The NASDAQ Stock Market and The Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. For the past 16 years, the Entrepreneurs Of The program have recognized the outstanding achievements of The New England region’s leading entrepreneurs and the example they set for all.
ikaInternational Group signs a contract with BAE Systems to provide Consulting Services to Dept of NAVY. www.baesystems.com
ikaInternational Group has been teamed with BAE Systems to Architect and Administrate the Department of Navy’s iPlanet – LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server.
ikaInternational Group signs a contract with Lockheed Martin to provide Consulting Services for Lockheed Martin’s Clients in Texas, Denver and Atlanta region. www.lockheedmartin.com
ikaInternational Group teamed with Lockheed Martin to provide consulting services in various Government Projects. As a team member supports Lockheed Martin in various areas including Wireless Engineering, Dataware housing, ERP, Financials, Web Technologies, Systems Engineering, Security, Software Engineering.
Group One Source is now a major player in the Insurance Marketplace due to the technology and know how of the people at ikaInternational Group says President of Group One Source "Steve Coburn", an affiliate of Lincoln Financial Group.
Group One Source (GOS) an affiliate of Lincoln sells group insurance products and services.ikaInternational Group is the exclusive provider of the e-platform that enables GOS to sell, enroll and bind the insurance on-line with insurance carriers. GOS has over $900 million dollars of premium on the books with over nine thousand producers, and some fifteen thousand groups in-force, with over fifty locations through out the country.
With the implementation of ikaInternational
Group e-platform Mr. Coburn believes that
the Lincoln producers could double their
book of business within the next twelve
to eighteen months. The Brokerage firms
and producers alike will enjoy this streamlined
process, which will directly reduce their
overhead expenses and increase their net
profit. He also adds that such an e-platform
is unique in its multi channeled distribution
approach. ikaInternational
Group empowers the Employee Benefit Specialist
Managers (EBSM) located in the Lincoln
Regional Planning Offices, Non-Lincoln
Brokerage firms (practice partners).
ikaInternational
Group develops MetLife rating engine and
launches group Insurance products for
brokers across the nation through GOS
Web Insurance Mall.
ikaInternational Group develops a rating engine to quote MetLife products for brokers across the nation through Group One Source (GOS) Web insurance Mall, a Lincoln affiliate of Group Insurance Operation. GOS has over $900 million dollars of premium on the books with over nine thousand producers, fifteen thousand groups, and over fifty locations through out the country. This web insurance platform is unique in it’s exclusivity and enhances a multi-channeled approach via Brokers, practice partners, producers and optimizing the performance of current Employee Benefit Specialist Managers at GOS locations.
MetLife, Inc. continues to hold a leadership position in the financial services industry. Today, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) has approximately $2.1 trillion of life insurance in force, serving approximately ten million individual households in the U.S.* MetLife currently provides group insurance and retirement and savings products and services to approximately 64,000 corporations and other institutions, including 88 of the Fortune 100 largest companies. MetLife's institutional clients have approximately 33 million employees and members. MetLife also has international insurance operations in 13 countries. In the retirement arena, MetLife is helping over a million individuals realize their goal of achieving a financially secure retirement, as well as offering pension plans to small businesses, government entities, non-profit organizations, and corporations.
ikaInternational
Group launches a Humana System Rating
interface for Group One Source, a Lincoln
Affiliate.
ikaInternational Group developed an online interface with Humana for Group One Source (GOS), a Lincoln Affiliate that specializes in group insurance. GOS has approximately fifteen thousand groups in force with over $900 million dollars of premium. GOS has nine thousand producers and over fifty locations through out the country.
This interface dynamically interacts and transmits the data using XML protocols to extract rates and benefits from The Humana mainframe to be used in the proposal maintenance system. The Interface developed is a highly complex process and surpasses most of it’s competitors in this respective area of on-line inter phases.
Humana Inc., is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health benefits companies, with approximately 6.4 million medical members located primarily in 18 states and Puerto Rico. Humana offers coordinated health insurance coverage and related services through traditional and Internet based plans to employer groups, and government-sponsored plans. Humana has proven over its 40-year history that it embraces change and has seized opportunities that have helped to transform its business. Humana has made the transition from its early beginning as a nursing home operator to America’s largest hospital company to its current business of providing health insurance and related-specialty products. Today, Humana is a recognized leader in the areas of innovative wellness and chronic disease intervention programs for its members and its use of Internet technology to streamline its operations and to make doing business with Humana easier, simpler and more satisfying for all its customers.
ikaInternational
Group develops a unique rating engine
that allows for quoting of The Hartford
group products through Group One Source
Web Insurance Mall.
ikaInternational Group implemented the algorithms and business rules for The Hartford to offer its products through Group One Source Web Insurance mall. Founded in 1810, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG) is one of the nation's largest investment and insurance companies in the U.S. To millions of our customers -- businesses, groups and individuals -- The Hartford Stag logo is a trusted symbol of dependability. The Hartford is a leading provider of investment products, life insurance and group and employee benefits; automobile and homeowners products; business insurance; and reinsurance. The company is the largest seller of individual annuities in the U.S. and has been a provider of auto and homeowners insurance to members of AARP since 1984. Recognized for the diversity of its product portfolio and distribution networks, The Hartford serves customers through independent agents and brokers, financial institutions, affinity groups and via the Internet. Approximately 11,000 independent agencies and more than 100,000 registered broker/dealers sell the company's products.
ikaInternational Group in "e-fusion 2001".
ikaInternational Group Corporation will be represented at A.M. Best's 14th Annual Insurance and Technology Conference “e-fusion 2001: finding the e-payoff.” The event is being held at the J.W. Marriott Hotel from October 21-23 in Washington D.C. Attendees will have an opportunity to explore new approaches to insurance technology. Also, hear from an All-Star line-up of insurance and technology leaders who are blazing new trails in financial services technology and find new strategies for e-commerce. Representatives of ikaInternational Group will be available to provide Insurance leaders a demonstration of software products developed exclusively for the insurance industry. ikaInternational Group Corporation’s software allows for insurance companies to interface online with their sales managers and producers generating instantaneous quotes for multiple products spread-sheeted in a side-by-side benefit comparison format. ikaInternational Group also has secured conference rooms for system demonstrations and educational meetings.
Group One
Source, an affiliate of Lincoln Financial
Corporation, commissions a total e-Commerce
solution for the insurance industry.
ikaInternational Group successful implementation of total B2B, B2C, B2A, and A2A e-Commerce insurance solutions is amazing and praiseworthy,” says Steve Coburn, President of Group One Source. “This insurance mall/portal/control center/system will let 40,000 brokers and agents handle 500,000 members in over 12,500 employer groups with 49 locations. They will be able to create accounts, proposals and benefits, will be able to maintain, monitor and administer these plans, benefits and employer groups through this system.”
The system we have developed for Group One Source combines COM/DCOM, J2EE, CORBA, ASP, JSP, and XML technologies and clusters of distributed objects. The transactions and the workflow are coordinated and controlled through JMS and JTS/JTA.
The rating engines and other mission-critical business objects are implemented around CORBA 2.3 standards where session based entities and persistence demanding entities are controlled through EJB 2.1 compliance components. Static contents are delivered through COM/DCOM and ASP technology.
ikaInternational Group B2B enables PurchaseSoft's range of products.
Today, demonstrated the power and the potential of its flagship product ikaComm. ikaComm enables PurchaseSofts’ range of procurement products to link buyers and suppliers and other portals through Ariba's cXML standards. Ariba's cXML is designed to provide an XML based protocol between entities engaged in B2B e-Commerce transactions. With ikaComm, these procurement packages will be able to carry out procurements and transactions with a variety of suppliers who have implemented cXML as their protocol for procurement transaction, which include punch out requests, procurement orders placement, etc.,
Group One Source, an affiliate of Lincoln Financial Corporation teams with ikaInternational Group to implement total B2B, B2C, B2A, A2A e-Commerce solutions to manage multi-carrier employee benefits and services.
Group One Source (GOS) currently provides group insurance to more than 500,000 members in over 12,500 employer groups. GOS has 49 locations serving some 40,000 brokers and agents throughout the world. These figures are likely to quadruple by first quarter 2001.
ikaInternational Group will develop and host total e-commerce solutions that will enable brokers, groups, employers, employees, enrollers, TPAs, carriers, reinsures, providers, and producers to transact online.
This market place, a unique combination of ASP, COM/DCOM, Java J2EE, and CORBA technologies, will empower the entire insurance industry with awe-inspiring features, speed and performance. This system is scheduled to become operational during the last quarter of 2000.
ikaInternational Group and PurchaseSoft announce key Partnership
ikaInternational Group, a leading developer of fully customizable, XML-based business-to-business (B2B) software, announced a key partnership with PurchaseSoft (OTC BB: PURC) to B2B-enable their product suite. PurchaseSoft offers a complete suite of applications for all aspects of the procurement cycle, from a simple walk-up interface for requisitioning, all the way through catalog content, authorization, purchase orders receiving, RFPs and auctions, asset tracking, invoice matching, and decision support.
“PurchaseSoft’s suite of products streamlines the procurement cycle and will take it the next step. Using XML protocols, PurchaseSoft’s suite will handle B2B transactions with ease.”
