Carrier Connect

Electronic transmission of enrollment data

With the passing of the 1996 HIPAA Act, all medical, dental and vision insurance carriers are required to have the ability to receive enrollment data electronically. Ascentis Software saw this legislation as an opportunity to fulfill its founding mission of connecting employees directly to their benefit providers both HIPAA and non-HIPAA carriers and created HROffice Carrier Connect1.

What is Carrier Connect?

HROffice Carrier Connect provides accurate and secure electronic communication of enrollment data from HROffice to insurance providers via a clearinghouse service. Carrier Connect links up to both HIPAA and non-HIPAA carriers such as 401K vendors.

Employees are connected to their benefit providers

Through HROffice Self-Service and online open enrollment, employees make their benefits elections online. Upon HR approval, Carrier Connect compiles the benefit elections data in the government regulated ANSI 834 standard format and electronically transfers the information from the HR department to both HIPAA and non-HIPAA insurance carriers through the service. With options for self-management or the carrier connect service; technology pushes electronic eligibility management directly to insurance carriers and benefits vendors.

Elimination of 20,000 plus documents

Carrier Connect combined with the technology of Employee Self-Service and online enrollment eradicates the paper process. Every organization has one or more open enrollment periods a year. If a 500-person organization offers ten benefit plans with four documents per plan (each plan varying in length), you could be looking at over 20,000 documents.

The elimination of the 20,000 documents saves HR personnel time and money on paper, postage and labor while significantly increasing the accuracy of information.