Ohio Anthem Customers Enroll in Health Care Benefits Online

Ohio Anthem Customers Enroll in Health Care Benefits Online

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Anthem) customers can now enroll in their health care benefits through secure, online tools available at http://anthem.com/ . The new capabilities not only make enrolling fast and easy for employees and individuals, but allow employers to streamline their work, lower administrative costs, and save time -- all in an effort to improve the ease of working with Anthem.

"Anthem is committed to continually developing and delivering online tools designed to make doing business with us easier than ever," said Chuck Slater, Vice President and General Manager for Anthem in Ohio. "These new Web enrollment capabilities provide our customers a comprehensive resource of convenient, easy-to-use, online services that offer a more efficient and simpler manner of interacting with Anthem."

Web enrollment is available to new groups with more than 51 employees and for individuals looking for health benefits coverage. Using Web enrollment, customers can:

* Work at their own pace - information is automatically saved, so customers don't have to complete their applications in one sitting.

* Enroll with confidence - Web Enrollment is secure, so customers can feel confident that their information will remain private.

* Manage benefits online - upon completing enrollment, employees gain automatic access to MyAnthem(SM), allowing them to take almost immediate advantage of a full range of online services. Those who enroll in individual health care coverage will need to register for MyAnthem after their policy is issued.

Web enrollment isn't just for employees and those signing up for individual health benefits coverage. The new tools help employers as well. Using Web enrollment, benefit administrators can:

* Reduce paperwork - less paperwork means simplified administration.

* Streamline enrollment - electronic submission allows employers to simplify the enrollment process.

* Eliminate delays - employees can't complete the electronic applications until all required fields are filled out, helping remove delays due to insufficient information.

* Simplify management - employers can quickly review and submit applications, making benefit management easier.

Anthem provides a suite of online, consumer-driven tools for members at MyAnthem, Anthem's personalized member Web site. MyAnthem features Subimo's PharmaAdvisor, which allows members to obtain easy-to-understand information about more than 11,000 drugs, including comparisons, side effects and interactions; Subimo's Healthcare Advisor, an interactive program that allows members to compare hospitals and learn more information about medical treatments; myhealth@anthem, an award-winning and medically certified health and wellness information resource; specialoffers@anthem, a program that offers discounts on health and wellness products and services; and provider directories, which make searching for physicians and other health care professionals a quick and easy process.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is a subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE:WLP). WellPoint, Inc. is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and serves its members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin; and through HealthLink and UniCare. Additional information about WellPoint is available at http://www.wellpoint.com/ .


Source: Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

CONTACT: In Southern Ohio, Kim Ream Ashley, +1-513-682-8863,
kim.ream@anthem.com , In Northern Ohio, Chip Palazzo, +1-216-643-0101,
chip.palazzo@anthem.com , or Heath Weber, +1-513-336-2678,
heath.weber@anthem.com , all of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Web site: http://anthem.com/
http://www.wellpoint.com/


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