Travis Software Announces WebCOBRA.com- New Internet-Based COBRA/HIPAA System
Houston, Texas -- February 22, 2005 --Travis Software Corp., the leader in desktop and network-based COBRA/HIPAA administration software since 1986, has made its Internet-based COBRA system available via www.WebCOBRA.com.
"WebCOBRA.com is nothing less than a re-invention of COBRA/HIPAA software," says Alan Williams, President and founder of Travis. "Any benefits administrator with an Internet-accessible PC can perform full-function COBRA administration from wherever they are, whether they are in the HR Department of an employer or doing COBRA administration for clients at a TPA, using the new system. Plus, COBRA qualified beneficiaries can learn about their benefits status at any time."
WebCOBRA.com has the functions of the Company's traditional server-based COBRA software system, TravisCobra, which has been available since 1986 and is used by more employers and TPAs/COBRA administrators than any other system. WebCOBRA.com combines those features with the ease of use and portability of secure, "24/7" access. The system was developed and is supported and updated by Travis, and reflects the results of the Company's 18 years of experience in developing and updating COBRA/HIPAA software. The system is available for as little as $250 per month, including support services.
Release of WebCOBRA.com, is the culmination of a strategy to create a "killer app" within the world of COBRA administration, a technology which will radically change the way that benefit administrators think about the COBRA tools available to them, with the benefit of lowering their costs and improving the ease of use and accessibility of those tools.
WebCOBRA.com is the result of three years of development to create the most fully-featured COBRA system ever designed. The system borrows on Travis' 18 years' experience offering COBRA software and providing support to employers and administrators/TPAs that use it.
But WebCOBRA.com isn't just a COBRA software system migrated to the Internet! WebCOBRA.com offers its users an opportunity to change the way they approach and perform COBRA administration, reducing the clerical work performed by the administrator and allowing the administrator to be relied on more for their knowledge of COBRA administrative "best practices" than for their ability to do clerical tasks.
WebCOBRA.com changes the paradigm of COBRA administration.
For example, Employers who are geographically dispersed can have their remote office's personnel login to WebCOBRA.com and enter new employee and Qualified Beneficiary information, rather than HR department personnel having to enter it at headquarters. TPAs can ask their clients to do the same thing -- no more time would be spent by the client entering the data into WebCOBRA.com than is now spent by the client filling out forms whenever new employees are hired (so that the COBRA General Notice can be printed) or when someone has a qualifying event (so that the COBRA Election Notice can be printed).
Pair WebCOBRA.com with the "Letter Printing Service" offered by Travis, where letters are printed, signed, folded, stamped and mailed without any involvement by the administrator, and employers and TPAs can also eliminate the need to do the most clerically time-consuming aspect of COBRA administration -- the handling of correspondence.
Employers and administrators can see WebCOBRA.com operate by visiting www.webcobra.com. Demonstrations and free trials of the system are available, by contacting Travis at www.travisoft.com or calling Travis Marketing toll-free at (866) 802- 2312.
