Blue Shield of California goes live with outpatient pricing engine developed by XYKA.
October 1, 2004

Blue Shield of California went live with the Outpatient pricing engine that was designed and developed by XYKA. This facility pricing engine allows the ability to price APG and APC claims. Significant features like pricing by fee schedules, case rates, percent charges, complex customized contracts were provided. It was built to handle carve-outs, special cases, maximum payment level.
The system comprised of a user-friendly interface that wrapped a very advanced pricing engine and database in the backend using technologies like visual basic 6.0 and oracle 9i. More than 800 users spread across various geographical regions would be using this application. This solution will reap significant savings to Blue Shield both in terms of accurate claim amounts and employee productivity

"This outpatient pricing engine application is a milestone in among the various applications that we have delivered to Blue Shield. Our goal here was to increase efficiency and accuracy of the claim and help provide significant savings to Blue Shield" said Rakesh Hegde, CEO of XYKA.

About Blue Shield of California.
Founded in 1939, Blue Shield of California is one of the state's leading healthcare companies. Headquartered in San Francisco, the not-for-profit corporation has more than 3.2 million members, 4,300 employees and more than 20 office locations throughout California. For more information on Blue Shield, visit the company's website at www.mylifepath.com.

About XYKA
XYKA is one of the leading business process consulting and application outsourcing organization focused on Travel and Healthcare verticals. XYKA has been extremely successful in outsourcing business processes as well as in developing high-quality technology products for leading customers. This is due to several factors, including XYKA's broad travel and healthcare business experience, extensive project management and technical skills and utilization of highly-competent off-shore resources in India.