BeneTrac Eases Physician Selection with New Feature That Enhances Benefits Management

San Diego, CA, December 23, 2006 – BeneTrac (http://www.benetrac.com), a provider of powerful, web-based electronic enrollment and employee benefits administration software, today announced enhancements to its software that make selecting a physician online even easier for employees and family members. The new feature, currently being offered to Blue Shield of California members that use BeneTrac to manage benefits (and available to other carriers), enables employees to quickly and accurately select the best provider(s) from the Blue Shield database without leaving the benefits management site.
BeneTrac’s new provider selection feature reduces the number of screens required to select a physician from an average of seven to eight, still required by most benefits management systems, to only two and allows employees to do so without leaving the system. Typically, employees are required to exit the benefits management site, enter the carrier’s Web page, select plan information and search criteria, manually record the physician code, reenter the benefits management site and type in the correct information.
The ability to locate and automatically have physician information entered in BeneTrac greatly simplifies the process and reduces the potential for errors. BeneTrac directly draws information from a carrier database that is updated regularly.
Employees can search by zip (only within that zip, five miles from it, etc.), primary care, medical group or specialist; female or male doctor or no preference; specialty, name; ID, location, languages spoken and other fields or criteria, determined by the carrier.
“This new feature is a product of our company regularly polling and actively listening to employees and carriers to offer solutions that continually make their lives easier,” said Jerry D. Hawthorne, chairman and CEO, BeneTrac. “Our new provider selection feature is a win-win for carriers and employees and also gives brokers the ability to offer an even more robust benefits management system to their clients.”
The new feature is currently available to BeneTrac users, brokers and prospects at no additional cost.
Screen shots are available upon request.

About BeneTrac
BeneTrac (also known as Hawthorne Benefit Technologies, Inc.) is a provider of powerful, web-based electronic enrollment and employee benefits administration software. The company’s online benefit management solution, available exclusively through insurance brokers and benefits consultants, enables employers and human resources professionals to eliminate paperwork and automate management of their complete benefits packages through a single, customized portal. BeneTrac’s one-stop-shop platform for automatically adding, updating, electronically exchanging, assessing and managing information capitalizes on relationships with more than 400 carriers. Leaders in software engineering, group insurance and human resources, the experts at BeneTrac are dedicated to offering a robust, affordable, user-friendly system that simplifies benefits administration. For more information, please visit www.benetrac.com.
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