E-Health Europe – June 3, 2008
TriZetto Signs Netherlands Marketing Deal
Writer Neil Versel reports that TriZetto signs an agreement for Unisys Nederland NV to market, distribe and maintain TriZetto products to Dutch health insurance organizations. Commenting on the five-year deal, the company's first international channel partner agreement, Vice President of Strategic Alliances Chuck Sanders says, "I think Europe is a tremendous growth opportunity for us. We’re not just going to sit back and wait for an RFP." [read article - PDF]  [visit web site]

The Healthcare Savings Chronicle – May 19, 2008
The Road Ahead: New Emphasis on Prevention Key to Reducing Fraud
Some industry estimates put the total annual loss in U.S. healthcare from fraud and abuse somewhere between $63 billion and $210 billion. In this bylined article, co-authors Robert McGinley and James McCall, TriZetto vice presidents, write that a growing number of payers now realize that the traditional "pay-and-chase" approach to fraud abatement isn't working. They explain and advocate a framework that harnesses a variety of tools to achieve true fraud prevention. "This approach emphasizes cooperation and communication with providers, greater member buy-in through improved education and industry-wide transparency to allow for easier identification of aberrant behavior." [read article - PDF]  [visit web site]

Workforce Management – April 21, 2008
Special Report: Consumer-Driven Health Care – If You Fix It, They Will Come
In their interview for this story, Senior Vice President of Human Capital Management Alan Ross and Vice President Alan Heikkala report that TriZetto in January replaced its old consumer-driven health plan with a new plan design and saw enrollment jump from 3 percent to 41 percent, even though the company continues to offer PPO and HMO options. Feedback from employees, they say, indicates the premium pricing makes the consumer-driven plan attractive and the account seeding by TriZetto relieves anxiety about expenses that might arise before employees have time to build up their accounts. [read article - PDF]

Healthcare IT News - March 2008
QualChoice Gets Tough on Fraud
By using TriZetto’s Plan Data Management as its special investigator unit and utilizing TriZetto's Facets claim adjudication system, QualChoice of Arkansas, a managed care company and health benefits administrator, takes an integrated approach to managing fraud, waste and abuse, according to Haley Wilson, QualChoice's CIO. Robert McGinley, vice president of detection and recovery services for TriZetto's Plan Data Management division, notes that such integration is vital "because the biggest hurdles in fraud detection are the inhibited flow of clean data and lack of clean data itself." [read article - PDF]

Physicians' Financial News – March 24, 2008
RCTA Helps Medical Practices Streamline Operations
Real-time claims adjudication (RTCA) processes are simplifying administrative tasks and helping physicians obtain payment for services from patients at the time care is provided. Quoted extensively throughout this article, Dawn Burriss, vice president of integrated provider solutions for TriZetto, explains how RTCA helps physicians improve cash flow, reduce days in accounts receivable and prevent bad debt as much as possible. [read article - PDF]  [visit web site]

Healthcare Finance News - February 2008
Integrated Management is Answer to the Crisis
A new way of managing the flow of benefit and care information and the incentives built into the U.S. healthcare system has the potential to benefit every participant by improving the availability of relevant information, improving the quality of medical care and reducing costs. TriZetto Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Solutions Officer Dan Spirek explains "integrated healthcare management" and how payers are ideally positioned to lead toward this new model because they are the organizers of both benefits and care. [read article - PDF]

Managed Healthcare Executive - March 1, 2008
Payers Start to Leverage Social Networking Media
In the emerging world of consumer retail healthcare, organizers of systems of care – healthcare payers – will increasingly begin to participate in social networks in 2008 to stay in step with the consumers they ultimately serve. Read more about this prediction in an article authored by Chairman and CEO Jeff Margolis. [read article - PDF]

Managed Care Outlook - January 15, 2008
Predictions for the Health Care Payer Market in 2008: The Rise of Integrated Healthcare Management
As 2008 began, the health care industry entered a new era of integrated healthcare management (IHM) – the systematic application of processes and shared information to optimize the coordination of benefits and care for the health care consumer. Jeff Margolis, chairman and CEO, presents six predictions in this bylined article. These six challenges and changes, he argues, can be met by payers that embrace IHM. [read article - PDF]

Consumer-Focused Healthcare - October 3, 2007
Dan Spirek Weighs in on the Direction of Consumerism in Healthcare
Consumers don't want to actually take control of healthcare, much as they didn't want control over their retirement funds. But employer survival is forcing the transition. This is one of several observations on consumerism captured in a podcast featuring Dan Spirek, TriZetto’s executive vice president, integrated health solutions and chief solutions officer, and posted on the blog of Vijay Goel, M.D. Blogger Goel previously was a consultant at McKinsey & Co, where he worked with payers, providers, banks and employers to think through the implications of healthcare consumerism. [read blog]

The Healthcare Savings Chronicle – September 2007
Imagine a Time
Imagine a time when every patient has access to all the information needed to make sound health and healthcare decisions. A patient would leave each physician visit with a summary of that interaction, including self-management advice. In this bylined article, TriZetto’s Gene Drabinski, president of cost and quality of care, explains how we get from here to there and how payers can take a leading, more relevant role. [read article - PDF]

Healthcare Finance News - June 1, 2007
Debt Collection Can Be Nasty, But It's Necessary
This leading health care IT monthly magazine features an article about providers' frustration with rising collection debt and how new technology can help reduce those lost costs. This article features quotes from TriZetto's Dawn Burriss. [read article - PDF]

Nashville Business Journal - May 4, 2007
Easing the Pain of High-Deductible Health Plans
This Tennessee business journal article focuses on Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee and the success they've seen since implementing TriZetto's Provider POS Direct real-time estimation tool. [read article - PDF]

Advance for Health Information Executives - March 1, 2007
Paying as Medicare Pays
This featured byline by TriZetto expert Larry Bridge addresses the business and technology challenges that health plans face when offering Medicare Advantage private-fee-for-service benefits. [read article]

Managed Care Weekly - February 12, 2007
Jeff Margolis Predicts Profound Changes to U.S. Healthcare System in 2007
TriZetto's CEO, a 20-year leader in developing information-technology systems for the managed care industry, offers his top healthcare predictions for 2007 and beyond. [read summary]

Healthcare Finance News - February 1, 2007
BCBST Buys POS Product for Providers
This leading health care IT monthly magazine features an article on BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s deployment of TriZetto's Provider POS Direct software, which provides accurate patient liability at the point of care in support of consumer-directed health plan products. [read article - PDF]

Managed Healthcare Executive - February 1, 2007
Change in Guard = Change in Medicaid?
This monthly publication written for executives in the managed care industry includes expert commentary from TriZetto’s Larry Bridge on changes in the Medicaid market and the related opportunities for health plans. [read article]

Investor's Business Daily – January 19, 2007
Healthy Growth for Health Care Services
The nation's top newspaper for both professional and individual investors provides an industry snapshot of the booming health care services industry, featuring the healthcare information-technology services offered by TriZetto and expert commentary from analyst Gene Mannheimer of Caris & Co. [visit home page]

Managed Care Outlook - January 1, 2007
Debit Cards and Benefit Plan Administration
This targeted bi-weekly publication, which addresses cutting-edge trends and techniques in the managed care industry, features an article by TriZetto’s Joseph Manheim on the key issues surrounding debit cards and the need for a tightly integrated consumer benefit payment platform. [visit Managed Care Outlook]

Investor's Business Daily – December 5, 2006
Outsource Model Key To E-Health Records
The nation's top newspaper for both professional and individual investors examines the technology strategies behind e-health records, with expert commentary from TriZetto. [visit home page]

Healthcare Savings Chronicle – December 2006
Transparency: The Key to Un-Locking Consumer-Directed Care
This targeted monthly publication, which covers companies in the forefront of the healthcare marketplace, features an article by TriZetto's Gail Knopf on the critical importance of data transparency and the role of the payer given the emerging retail model in healthcare. [read article]

Consumer Driven Healthcare – November 2006
Beyond Plan Design: BCBSIL, TriZetto Collaboration Focuses on Delivering Timely, Targeted Information
This cutting-edge monthly publication profiles the partnership between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois and TriZetto, including how TriZetto’s CareAdvance Enterprise software is helping the health plan to succeed in a consumer-driven market. [request a copy]

Orange County Business Journal - November 27, 2006
Insurer Acquisitions Spur TriZetto Gains
This weekly business journal profiles TriZetto’s continued growth amid strategic acquisitions. [read article]

Managed Healthcare Executive - October 2006
State of the Industry: 2007
This monthly publication written for executives in the managed care industry includes CEO Jeff Margolis’ predictions for consumer directed healthcare in 2007. [read article]

Healthcare IT News - October 17, 2006
CMS to Put Medicare Part D Data to Work
This leading healthcare IT monthly magazine examines how CMS and the industry’s leading healthcare IT vendors, like TriZetto are putting Medicare Part D data to work. [read article]

Forbes.com - October 3, 2006
Five Smart Analyst Plays
This high-level website offering hard-hitting financial and national news digs deep into the companies the Wall Street consensus deems as "5 Smart Analyst Plays." [read article]

CIO Magazine - October 1, 2006
Cure for the Blues
This leading-edge magazine written for Chief Information Officers examines the industry of health insurance plans, with a special focus on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, a partner of the TriZetto Group. [read article]

Healthcare IT News - October 1, 2006
TriZetto Acquisition Follows a Trend
This leading healthcare IT monthly magazine explores the announcement of TriZetto's $145 million acquisition of Quality Care Solutions Inc. and how it follows a trend of tighter integration of claims processing and claims editing systems and synergy between products and companies. [read article]

Managed Healthcare Executive - September 2006
Real-Time, Point-of-Service Financial Settlement: Why Health Plans will Lead the Next Revolution in Healthcare
This monthly publication written for executives in the managed care industry features an article on health plans leading the next revolution in healthcare, written by Dawn Burriss of TriZetto. [read article - PDF]

Los Angeles Times - October 23, 2006
Business News: Promotions and Appointments
The primary newspaper representing the city of Los Angeles and its suburbs includes a news brief on TriZetto naming Gene Drabinski president of the cost unit. [visit business section]

Health Data Management - October 1, 2006
Sprucing Up Practice Management
This respected healthcare IT trade explores the new functions being added to software and bringing new efficiencies within practice management. TriZetto provides expert commentary within the article. [read article]

BusinessWeek Online - October 27, 2006
Financial News
This online news portal from the one of the leading news publications in the country features a news brief on TriZetto's acquisition of Plan Data Management. [visit home page]

Houston Chronicle - September 2006
Business News
This daily newspaper explores the partnership between TriZetto and Plan Data Management. [visit home page]

Wall Street Journal - October 27, 2006
TriZetto Signs Pact To Buy Plan Data Mgmt Inc.
The national daily newspaper explores the partnership between Plan Data Management and TriZetto. [read article]

Health Management Technology - September 2006
Claiming Victory
This respected healthcare IT trade explores claims and coding efficiencies with expert commentary from TriZetto customer APS Healthcare and information about the TriZetto product, Facets. [read article]

Advance for Health Information Executives - July 2006
Cementing New Relationships
Larry Bridge of TriZetto offers a thought leadership byline on the Medicare Modernization Act. [read article]

Managed Healthcare Executive
Hi-Tech Contracting from December Special Report, December 2005
Technology is an important factor in effecting successful contractual relationships between insurers and providers, but mostly from an administrative viewpoint. The Trizetto Group... [more...]

Managed Healthcare Executive
Web Service Improves New Mexico's Largest Health Plan, June 2005
In late 1999, we at Presbyterian Health Plan made a commitment to boost our business use of the Internet. Our executive team began outlining a Web strategy to strengthen operations... [more...]

Managed Healthcare Executive
Commentary: Substance Must Come Before Style in Consumer-driven Plan, by Jeff Margolis, CEO, TriZetto,
March 2005
In his book, The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell explains that momentous shifts in behavior are preceded by incremental changes, which build until they reach a critical mass. Well, hold on to your hats, because healthcare's about to tip... [more...]

Managed Healthcare Executive
Consumer-Directed Healthcare and Meeting the IT Challenge, September 2004
The demand for consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) is growing. Once just an idea tossed around in health plan boardrooms and industry think tanks, CDH is now taking root... [more...]

Healthcare IT News
Payers Keen for the Right Data, June 2004
IT vendors, fresh from the National Managed Health Care Congress, are focusing on providing greater integration and added functionality to their managed care products this year... [more...]

Healthcare IT News
Buyers' Guide – Managed Care Information Systems, June 2004
GETTING COSTS OUT and operating efficiencies are driving the market for managed care information systems (MCIS), according to Steve O'Dell, vice president... [more...]

Disease Management News
Predictive Modeling Strategy Yields Savings for TN Blues, February 25, 2004
Adding a predictive modeling tool to its data mining activities has helped Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee save money and enhance its disease management services... [more...]

Health Management Technology
The Health Plan of Tomorrow, by Jeff Margolis, CEO, TriZetto, January 2004
The increased role of consumers, along with increased healthcare costs, will compel health plans to use technology so everyone in the equation comes out a winner. Ready or not, the age of consumerism has descended upon healthcare... [more...]

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