Health-care insurers are in a less ...

Health-care insurers are in a less degree than mounting pressure to adopt wider use of present information technology in the claims proces an area where a estimate that outmoded processing and practicing standards charge the industry billions of dollars a year beyond the actual payment of claims.

Some of the compressing is coming from Washington, where a bill introduced in June 2002 through Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., awaits action by the agency of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Kennedy's Efficiency in Health Care (eHealth) Act of 2002 would require all health plans to proces claims with an accuracy of greater than 99%