Fallon Health Partners With Cognizant to Become the First Massachusetts Health Insurer to Provide Quotes for Merged Market Plans Under Affordable Care Act

Cognizant enabled Fallon Health, a Massachusetts-based not-for-profit health care services organization, to become the first Massachusetts health insurer to provide quotes for merged market plans mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

As Fallon's strategic partner, Cognizant developed and deployed a new online quoting tool called QuoteNow that facilitates best-practice quoting, rating and underwriting, and streamlines application submission and enrollment. By helping Fallon to successfully exchange HIPAA-compliant electronic information with the Massachusetts Health Connector within a record time of five months, Cognizant enabled Fallon to accept applications and enroll members from the open enrollment date of October 1, 2013.

"This engagement forms an important part of our roadmap to automate our business processes for superior service and better regulatory preparedness," said Frank Barresi, Chief Information Officer of Fallon Health. "A project of such high complexity would have taken well over a year, but we had just five months to launch date. Cognizant worked with us as a trusted partner and delivered a fully functional application right on time and the capabilities our business needed. We are impressed with Cognizant's agile and seamless execution of the project."

"We are pleased to help Fallon Health define new industry benchmarks and enhance its competitiveness, while keeping up with regulatory requirements and improving consumer satisfaction," said Krish Venkat, President of Cognizant's Healthcare and Life Sciences practice. "Dramatic shifts in consumer behavior and expectations, coupled with regulatory changes and commoditization of services, have opened a great opportunity for insurers to not just 'run better' by improving efficiency and productivity, but also 'run different' by driving transformation and disruptive change."

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