Premera Blue Cross Launches Real-Time Cost-Estimator and Claims Adjudication Tool

Premera Blue Cross (Mountainlake Terrace, Wash.), has launched a new real-time cost-estimator and claims-adjudication tool that will enable providers to produce immediate out-of-pocket expense estimates for patients.

The online tool gives providers the option of using the Web-based program to submit their claims to Premera for processing in real time, reducing paperwork and postage and reducing the period for reimbursement by days.

The estimates-and-claims tool appears on Premera`s Web site in a secure area of the Provider Portal. The new technology aims to provide wider transparency and assistance for consumers in informing them of their costs up front, according to Premera.

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