Welcome to Benefits Central tm You have reached the Medical Central health care portal for automated benefit plan resources for your organization.  As part of the Medical Central Online family, we provide a number of services to assist with your employees' health: A full-service health benefits software called Benefit Plan Central tm that provides a complete suite of services to manage your cafeteria style health plans. A complete COBRA management service, including mailing and post-employment processes. A private medical search engine so that employees can take responsibility for their own health. Benefits Central is an Internet-based software package that will allow the complete administration of all types of insurance, health plans and multiple benefits.The product has been designed as either a Client/Server application under Windows or an ASP model able to transmit and operate fully over the Internet. It easy to use, and easy to add new features. All graphics and interfaces have been designed for an 12th grade educational level. Benefits Central is feature rich (See below) and will meet the most exacting requirements of any oranization - from a small business to a large multi-site corporation with hundreds of thousands of employees.  Back Ground: An original Benefits Tracking Program was custom written by Medical Central Online for the Municipals Employees Association (MEA), the Union that represents the city employees to the city of San Diego .  The City of San Diego had basically a paper system for employee benefits. Because of the additional paperwork, they had no interest in offering their employees additional services like, car phones, pagers, health club memberships, etc. Furthermore, the municipality wanted to reduce their overall costs of employee health care management. Healthcare administrative fees alone amounted to over $400,000 per year. MEA agreed to perform this service to the City free of charge, and hired Medical Central Online to write and deploy the applicate as a web-based product. MEA makes their money in many ways. One is through dues. The other is through negotiated discounts or service fees from the providers (the ones who provide services to MEA).The reason that MEA decided to have this custom application written is because there was no solution in the marketplace.  Today, in 2002, the solution that Medical Central developed is still the only solution. To see how we implemented this product for the MEA, please click here: http://www.sdmea.com Medical Central Online owns all copyrights and has full ownership of this program.   Benefits Central Features      Key Features: Security utilizes SSL layer and 128 bit PKI encryption for maximum security and confidentiality of all records. The ability to add unlimited number of providers. The ability to track (by type of service that a providers offers) different fees or discounts. The ability to track the Employee and Dependents. The ability to assigned different services and benefits to Employee and Dependents. The ability to develop a standard employee web page with photograph. Members can access and look up their benefit information on-line through a password access. The ability to store scanned forms that an employee is required to fill out for eligibility etc. and link it to the employee record. The ability to transmit eligibility data to providers. The ability to track up to 6 custom fields by provider. The ability to Track and Split a benefit between payment sources. The ability to track Flexible Spending prorams.  The ability to connect to a Main Frame and transmit Payroll deductions. The ability to view transactions and to reconcile those transactions quickly (from providers bills). The ability to electronically reconcile transactions (with data provided by the providers). The ability to report on anything in the system. Supports Various Benefits Supports Various Plans Cafeteria Flexible Benefits Plans Medical Reimbursement Plans Dependent Care Reimbursement Plans Premium Conversion, Premium Only Plans ("POP") Trusteed Plan or no Trust Plan subject to or exempt from ERISA   Medical Insurance HMO/PPO Dental Care Option Optician/eye-ware plan Disability Benefits Group Term Life Insurance Medical Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Other User Defined Benefit plans Detailed Reporting Various Fundings Plan/ Trust Medical Reimbursement Dependent Care Reimbursement Summary Plan Description Administrative Summary Plan Design Checklist Board Resolution to Adopt/Amend Limitation of Legal Liability Qualified Medical Child Support Order Enrollment Survey Request for Medical Reimbursement Request for Dependent Care Reimbursement Claim/Request Denial Notification Form Flexible Spending Account Balances Notification of Benefits Upon Death/Termination COBRA Continuation Notice Salary Reduction Spending Credits Combination Input/Output features Easily create, amend plans Add your own language Print to wide array of printers Choose font styles and types Create Rich Text Format (RTF) for word processors  Transfer data to other systems Import data from current personnel files for fast implementation Online Documentation   System Support System Reliability Available 24/7 Two data centers with mirrored backup continuously Data centers in Highland Park IL. and San Diego, CA 24-hour web site and e-mail access 24-hour fax access