Open Enrollment Goes Virtual: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia Launches Virtual Open Enrollment Center, Allowing Companies to More Easily Engage Employees

Open Enrollment Goes Virtual: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia Launches Virtual Open Enrollment Center, Allowing Companies to More Easily Engage Employees

Virtual Center is Fast and Accessible

ATLANTA, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- For medium and large organizations, providing employees with complete, comprehensive and consistent information during open enrollment can be challenging.  To help businesses reach and engage their employees more easily, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia (BCBSGA) has launched a Virtual Open Enrollment center, an easy to use, easy to understand interactive 3-D environment, which can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/23hkhqg.

"The virtual enrollment center is another way that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia is delivering the best value to our customers and the members we serve," said Morgan Kendrick, President, BCBSGA.  "Many businesses tell us they want to improve their systems to more effectively and efficiently communicate important benefit information to their employees.  The BCBSGA virtual open enrollment center, designed with input from businesses, was created to meet this need. Ultimately, we believe this will help individuals make the best benefit choices to fit their unique circumstances."

With the virtual enrollment center, employees can access benefits information at their convenience in a single intuitive and interactive location.  Upon entering the site, a user will see a 3-D design with their company's logo and a video spokesperson delivering personalized messages.  The center has scrolling marquees providing up to date messaging. The user can easily find enrollment information through simple key word searches.  In addition, the virtual enrollment center has a content library, housing enrollment materials, documents that can be downloaded, and web links to additional information such as health plan details, provider lists, prescription information and other available health programs. 

This is also a valuable resource for human resource departments as they can easily maintain and publish content. The virtual enrollment center gives them the ability to efficiently reach all employees, increase visibility within the organization, track the number of visitors and monitor the usage.   

"BCBSGA's virtual open enrollment center has been a great resource for our business and our employees," said Hazel Davis, manager, health and welfare plans for Albemarle Corporation.  "We began using this new system last week and already our employee engagement has increased, and the employee feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.  Our employees are able to access the center at their convenience, helping them to more effectively select the best benefits for themselves and their families.  We have been looking for a way to increase employee engagement and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia's virtual open enrollment center has been a perfect solution."

About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia:

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Inc. and Blue Cross and Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc. are independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association® . The Blue Cross and Blue Shield names and symbols are registered marks of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.  Additional information about Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia is available at http://www.bcbsga.com.

SOURCE  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia

CONTACT: Cheryl Monkhouse, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, +1-404-210-1362, Cheryl.monkhouse@bcbsga.com

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