HealthyCT partners with PPI for health benefits platform

PPI Benefit Solutions, a provider of benefits administration technology and services, has signed an agreement with HealthyCT, a nonprofit health insurance company, to provide a benefits-administration platform for companies with 51 employees or more.

Both PPI and HealthyCT are based in Wallingford and both operate in Fairfield County.

HealthyCT is classified a “consumer operated and oriented plan,” with profits plowed back into products, programs, services and future premium stabilization or reduction. It has a statewide network of more than 15,000 providers offering health insurance coverage to individuals and groups.

Through PPI, HealthyCT will offer groups with 51 or more employees a benefits-administration platform that consolidates online enrollment, a human-resources portal, integrated COBRA (1986 Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act) administration, consolidated billing, plus claims advocacy for a broad range of benefits and carrier products all in one place.

The addition of PPI”™s services adds “tremendous new value for employers and brokers,” HealthyCT said in a statement.

“HealthyCT has designed a compelling model of health care delivery and management, and we are very excited to add HealthyCT as a preferred carrier to our portfolio of health insurance plans,” said Luis Nunes, president and CEO of PPI Benefit Solutions, in a statement. “PPI has an established track record of delivering new business to our carrier partners while helping brokers deliver a more comprehensive offering to employers and their employees.”

“By leveraging the proven technology and services of PPI, HealthyCT will now deliver greater performance and value to our large group clients,” HealthyCT CEO Ken Lalime said in a statement. “The PPI platform helps our clients”™ busy human resources professionals streamline the administration of their HealthyCT plan along with many of their other benefit offerings at the same time. It is a tremendous value-add and time saver for them.”

PPI is more than 40 years old and serves more than 1,300 clients and nearly 100,000 employees.