The Blues Association and America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group for private insurers, are sponsoring the system as a pilot, which they said would save hundreds of billions of dollars in inefficiencies once it is rolled out across the country.
They compared the new technology to what ATMs did for banking and said the pilot had broad support from physicians’ organizations in New Jersey.
New Jersey practices will be able to use the Web site for 95 percent of their private-pay patients, covered by Aetna, AmeriHealth New Jersey, Cigna, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and United Healthcare.
Although practices can visit a single Web site for all five insurers, they will still need to go to subsections on the site for each insurer and not all of the health plans will immediately provide the same kinds of information.
Read the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s release on insurance billing.
