Mitchell Medical and Jopari Solutions Team up to Offer eBilling Compliance Services to Automobile Property & Casualty Insurance Carriers to Meet New Minnesota Re...( SAN DIEGO and CONCORD Calif. Feb....),Health

SAN DIEGO, and CONCORD, Calif., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mitchell Medical division of Mitchell International, Inc., which provides medical bill review, provider networks, workflow solutions, and decision support tools to over 60% of U.S. automotive insurance payers, and Jopari Solutions, Inc., the property and casualty industry's leading bill cycle automation technology provider, today announced Mitchell Medical will now include provider eBilling services as part of its suite of bill review and processing solutions. The Mitchell-Jopari solution will increase an insurers' ability to improve claims performance with compliant electronic transaction formats for eligibility requests, medical bill submissions, remittance advice and associated EFT payments.

Standardized eBill transactions are being increasingly mandated by state regulatory authorities. For example, the State of Minnesota Department of Health, as part of its recent Omnibus Health and Human Services funding bill, now requires that all providers and group purchasers exchange healthcare administrative transactions with insurance payers in standard electronic formats starting January 2009.

Mitchell Medical's medical eBill processing capabilities will allow auto insurers in states such as Minnesota to fully comply with the new rules. Minnesota's mandate is all inclusive, affecting anyone who bills for, or purchases health care services, and includes the medical component of automobile insurance. In a continuous effort to serve the evolving needs of insurers, Mitchell partnered with Jopari Solutions, an established leader in the Workers' Compensation eBilling space with a proven technology platform and significant clients from both the payer and provider communities.

Mitchell and Jopari are experienced partners able to combine claims process expertise to address the challenge of medical billing in the automotive claims process. Jopari already supplies the cutting edge technology behi
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