1992 electronic claims listing. Product roundup.

Late in 1991, Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan challenged health insurers and providers to increase the number of claims moved electronically by 10 percent each year. [See "Electronic claims are smart way to trim costs, share outcomes," January 1992 Computers in Healthcare, p. 52.] "Eventually, to receive care, every American patient will need only to present a health insurance card issued by a private or government plan to a hospital or doctor," according to Sullivan. "Patients will know how much their insurance will pay and what cost they are responsible for....Ultimately, patients should not have to fill out insurance forms." Numerous companies are striving to do away with those ever-present paper forms. Approximately 40 electronics claims firms listed here are specializing in claims management--from the standpoint of the clearinghouse, the physician's office or the hospital. We asked them about their best-selling electronics claims product, its price and any new products they now have for electronic claims or electronic data interchange. We hope this listing helps boost this year's electronic claims beyond Sullivan's 10 percent mark.