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METAVANTE BOLSTERS BENSOFT'S REPAYME
WITH ITS HEALTHCARE DEBIT CARD
Strategic Agreement Expands RepayMe's Leading Position
With Real-Time FSA/HRA/HSA Debit Card Technology
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- May. 23, 2006- BenSoft, Inc., a leading provider of automated reimbursement plan software, today announced a joint development agreement with Metavante, enabling an integration with the MBI Benefits Card. Metavante is an industry leader in linking employee benefit accounts, including flexible spending accounts (FSA), health savings accounts (HSA), and health reimbursement arrangements (HRA) with a nationally accepted debit card.
Under the terms of the agreement, BenSoft and Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions have developed an interface that facilitates information flows between the two companies' systems on a real-time basis. Additionally, BenSoft built a common platform for use with the MBI Benefits Card. As a result, RepayMe participants can be issued a nationally accepted debit card that gives them immediate access to their FSA/HRA/HSA funds at the point of service. Administrators using the integrated RepayMe-MBI Benefits Card solution can eliminate the need for participants' out-of-pocket spending, speed up claims processing, and provide real-time updates to flexible spending account balances.
With a highly scalable architecture, the RepayMe and Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions integration facilitates faster card issuing, quicker healthcare debit card funds loading and same-day processing and reimbursement for manual/paper-based claims. Additionally, administrators can eliminate or dramatically reduce costs associated with manual account administration. A Web-based interface delivers cost and time savings through real-time access to flexible spending accounts and automation of adjudication and reimbursement tasks.
"Adopting an automated reimbursement system integrated with a real-time healthcare payments platform and debit card, positions administrators to lead the drive to significantly reduce traditional, time-consuming processes associated with FSAs," commented John Reynolds, president, Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions. "Integrating with automated reimbursement plan software spotlights our ongoing mission to drive inefficient processes and spiraling costs out of healthcare."
As the first flexible benefit plan software company to integrate real-time debit card technology in 2003, RepayMe continues to extend the benefits of its automated reimbursement plan software across the most widely used payment systems. Metavante's MBI Benefits Card has been chosen by over 19,000 employers as the benefits debit card for their employees, resulting in nearly 1.8 million cards in use to help drive the transition from paper-based to electronic payments and information flow.
"We are pleased to be working with an industry innovator like Metavante to extend our debit card offerings," said Tom Horan, BenSoft's founder and CEO. "Working together with Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions to deliver a leading solution targets the enormous potential of the flexible spending account market and positions us as a forerunner in both technology and customer service for this rapidly growing space."
About Metavante
Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions offers a consumer-directed health benefits payment platform plus the country's leading employee benefits card - electronically accessing FSAs, HRAs, HSAs, transit/parking accounts and dependent care accounts. Metavante provides medical identification cards, combination eligibility/payment cards and the ability to access multiple benefits accounts from a single card. Metavante also provides a comprehensive FSA/HSA/HRA platform that provides all the technology a financial institution, health insurance company, third-party administrator or commercial business needs to offer these accounts. Services include account processing, trustee services, checks and debit cards, online and phone access to account information, investment options, regulatory reporting and related data translation and movement between payers, providers and consumers.
Metavante Corporation delivers banking and payments technologies to financial services firms and businesses worldwide. Metavante products and services drive account processing for deposit, loan and trust systems, image-based and conventional check processing, electronic funds transfer, consumer healthcare payments, and electronic presentment and payment. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Metavante (www.metavante.com) is wholly owned by Marshall & Ilsley Corporation.
About BenSoft, Inc.
Founded in 1991 and headquartered in San Diego, CA, BenSoft develops and markets RepayMe.com, an ASP-based benefits administration software solution designed specifically for Third Party Administrators and self-administrating employers seeking a cost-effective reimbursement account administration solution. RepayMe is the 100% Web-based software solution that provides an integrated real-time debit card option, online Participant Claim Entry, Employee Self Service, Employer Self Service, and a Business Processing Outsource (BPO) option for FSA/HRA/HSA management. BenSoft provides innovative benefits solutions to companies ranging in size from 250 to over 250,000 employees.
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