VUE Benefit Summary ToolTM automates and
streamlines the creation of health plan Summaries of
Benefits and Coverage (SBCs). The need for manual
involvement is sharply reduced, and customer service
and agent satisfaction improve.
Showcase Market Leadership
The Tool provides an organized, professional illustration of the differences in
various plans’ benefits, meeting customers’ needs and equipping companies to
provide superior service. A simplified development process reduces response time
to market and increases customer satisfaction and retention.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (PPACA) has established strict
standards for readable, uniform SBCs with
a compliance deadline of March 2012.
VUE Benefit Summary Tool provides an
efficient, streamlined and automated
system for meeting this new legal
requirement. The Tool also provides the
flexibility to update plan information and
create product-specific templates for easy
maintenance.
Organize and Standardize
Benefit Summaries
No longer do your marketing, product or
operations teams need to create each
summary from scratch. Standard, reusable
templates allow you to create summaries
effortlessly for individuals and customer
groups. In addition, the Tool speeds
annual re-enrollment processes and
eliminates production redundancies,
errors, workflow bottlenecks and keyperson
dependencies.
Report on Benefit Summary
Distribution
Tracking and reporting functions provide
strategic analytics capabilities. Information
such as the most recently quoted plans
and most popular plan elements is easy to
view for greater marketing and sales
planning insight.
Secure and Store Information
Information in the Tool is stored in a
secure, central location accessible across
functional teams via role-based security.
Stakeholders are kept up to date on the
most current templates. The Tool helps
ensure consistency, efficiency and
accuracy across teams, reducing the
instances of outdated or incorrect
information being distributed to customers
or other internal parties.
Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) Template
Pre-loaded, legally required standard templates with compliant
language
Optional Services packages offering effortless data imports and
template maintenance
Continuous availability of the most recent, up-to-date SBC
templates
Ability to maintain previous versions of your company-preferred
benefit summaries
Medical and Rx Benefits
Ability to use templates to create different benefit deductibles
Automatic naming of benefits
Availability of standard language, such as a glossary of terms
Option to add Rx plans and other riders to base plans
Confidence that only valid combinations of Rx and riders will be
populated
Ability to automatically generate a digital preview, then print,
email or post online
Custom Summary Generation
Custom summary management to ensure that summaries
generated by a salesperson are valid company offerings
Customization options for group policies that include the
employer’s company logo
Reporting
Management report for sales production
Audit report for changes
Smart VUE™ reporting to capture benefit summary history
Consulting Services
Knowledgeable consultants who evaluate the current state of
your system, make recommendations and help you set up
compliant summaries
Support for SBC development as well as use of the VUE Benefit
Summary Tool at all levels
Access and Control
Administrative functions for creating templates, importing data
and generating output
User functions enabling salespeople to build valid summaries
without requiring a comprehensive understanding of all variables
Extensive business rules that provide high levels of control over
output
Value
VUE Benefit Summary Tool adds significant value:
Consistent, flexible and up-to-date benefit summaries
Advanced security and audit controls
Summaries that support the Uniform Benefit Summary Rules with
respect to SBCs as well as Sarbanes-Oxley, credential
verification and other regulations
Potential to expand the system via Web integration and other
add-on capabilities
VUE Software utilizes Microsoft® platform technologies as the
foundation for all system development, providing a standard
architecture to facilitate enterprise integration and ensure costeffective
implementation. The system can be hosted by VUE
Software and accessed over the Internet, or hosted on the client’s
servers and deployed via a local intranet to company employees.
An active member in Microsoft’s Insurance Value Chain (IVC)
program, VUE Software works closely with Microsoft to ensure
leading system integration, scalability, reliability and security.