Agreement Provides Access to Nation’s Most Comprehensive Workers’ Compensation Platform
Tampa, Florida (April 15, 2008) – JW Software, Inc. (JWS), a leading provider of claims administration software and services today announced an agreement with PMSI, the nation’s largest provider of pharmacy and specialty products and services for workers’ compensation. Through the agreement, clients will benefit from the combination of JWS’ claims management software with PMSI’s comprehensive workers’ compensation platform.
PMSI’s platform consists of retail pharmacy, mail order service and bill review, as well as a clinical suite that focuses on drug utilization and review. This comprehensive set of services and products contains costs, achieve greater operational efficiencies across the patient continuum and improve the care of injured workers.
“Our relationship with JWS marks another key milestone toward PMSI’s strategic objective of providing best-of-breed managed care solutions to the workers’ compensation payor community. The integration of PMSI’s programs with JWS’s premier claims management system, gives current and prospective clients and their injured workers immediate access to best-in-class, lower cost pharmacy and ancillary medical services with no incremental IT investment or administrative burden”, commented Mark Agustin, Chief Financial Officer of PMSI.
JWS’ claims management software, FileHandler®, is a multi-line, browser-based system designed to manage the entire claims process. FileHandler’s Workers’ Compensation Line of Business Module includes automatic calculation of lost time based upon the state rate formulas; auto scheduling and auto generation of payments following setup; tracking of employee wage and medical information; integration of a dynamic forms library continually expanded to include all jurisdictionally mandated forms; interfaces to employee’s human resource system; and OSHA tracking and reporting.
“Our clients now have access to the cost savings and improved injured worker care associated with PMSI’s pharmacy platform,” commented Jim Wieland, President, JWS. “This fully integrated system requires no additional coding and no IT investment. Our clients will witness rapid deployment and immediate integration.”
About PMSI
PMSI—The Only Solution You Need. Founded in 1976, today PMSI is the nation’s largest provider of specialty managed care services and products for workers’ compensation and catastrophically injured populations. PMSI provides an integrated portfolio of services in Pharmacy, Medicare Set-Asides, Medical Services and Equipment, and Clinical Services that promote quality care for injured workers while helping clients contain costs and control utilization. For more information, visit www.pmsionline.com.
