EHNAC honors HERAE with Crystal Recognition Award

HERAE (www.herae.com), one of the nation's largest healthcare payment services providers, was honored with the Crystal Recognition Award from the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC). EHNAC's accreditation recognizes excellence in healthcare, and indicates compliance with industry-established standards and HIPAA regulations.

“The EHNAC Crystal Recognition award is an honor because EHNAC standards are the toughest in the industry. Knowing HERAE meets or exceeds that level of excellence is something our customers recognize on a daily basis and our employees should be proud of”

EHNAC evaluated HERAE in areas of privacy measures, systems availability and security infrastructure. EHNAC also reviewed the organization's process of managing and transferring protected health information and determined that the organization meets or exceeds all EHNAC criteria and industry standards. According to EHNAC, HERAE communicates and demonstrates adherence to a higher standard of quality, privacy and data management. EHNAC acknowledges HERAE's dedication to excellence and ongoing commitment to continued improvement.

"The EHNAC Crystal Recognition award is an honor because EHNAC standards are the toughest in the industry. Knowing HERAE meets or exceeds that level of excellence is something our customers recognize on a daily basis and our employees should be proud of," said Jim Ribelin, HERAE CEO. "Our goal at HERAE is to effectively and affordably process electronic healthcare payments for our clients, which includes private information that must be afforded the highest security."

HERAE is transforming electronic healthcare payment processing and is establishing the nation's electronic Financial Healthcare Network^TM by securely connecting payers, providers and financial institutions with standardized electronic financial healthcare transactions.

HERAE's IntelliRemit^TM generates precision payments for payers and helps payers reduce bank fees. The solution also ensures prompt pay compliance with a single end-to-end electronic solution. By providing one bank ACH file and transforming thousands of varying format 835s and ERA files into a single standardized electronic 835 for providers, HERAE can save payers thousands of dollars in bank fees, while the automatic payment and remittance re-association vastly improves providers' revenue cycle.

DirectERA^TM is HERAE's all-payer electronic payment receipt solution for providers and enables a secure, HIPAA-compliant paperless payment process that requires no software or IT upgrades.