Mitchell and Jopari Say 'Green Transaction Initiatives' Play Key Role in P&C and...

Mitchell and Jopari Say 'Green Transaction Initiatives' Play Key Role in P&C
and Group Health Industry Environmental Best Practices

Cost Advantages of Electronic Medical Bill and Payment Support Insurance
Industry Corporate Greening

SAN DIEGO and CONCORD, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitchell International,
Inc., a leading provider of medical cost containment, provider networks,
workflow solutions and decision support tools to over 70% of U.S. automotive
insurance payers, and Jopari Solutions, a leading supplier of eBill Processing
and Gateway Services to Workers' Compensation, Auto Medical and Group Health
Payers, say 'Green Transaction Initiatives' play a key role in environmental
best practices. Green transactions involve migration to electronic medical
bills, payments and documentation. In addition to reduced processing costs,
insurers making a commitment to green transactions benefit from sustainable
business processes and natural resource conservation.

According to Mitchell and Jopari, challenging conditions in Group Health and
Non-Group Health markets have caused many payers not to pursue green
initiatives as a top priority. Payers have focused their available
Information Technology assets strategically on product performance, sales
effectiveness and decision support - but not specifically on removing paper
from the business process value chain.

Deepening environmental consciousness, however, is increasing public demand
for greater social contributions from the business community. Regulatory
activity also is encouraging industry to adopt clean business practices, while
model corporate citizenship standards now identify low-carbon footprint as a
business operations metric.

State level environmental legislation together with the American Clean Energy
and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) recently introduced in Congress, are shining a
critical spotlight on paper intensive industries. Consequently, business
activities that involve high relative resource consumption - such as the
insurance industry's conventional processing of medical transactions - today
are vulnerable to negative societal perceptions and might be losing customers
who chose insurance carriers based on commitments to green business practices.

Detrimental social perceptions present market risk and are a new factor
challenging Workers' Compensation, Auto Medical and Group Health payers to
shift valuable IT assets toward paperless transactions capability, or acquire
green technology from suppliers like Mitchell and Jopari. Mitchell-Jopari
Gateway Services strip paper off the medical bill life cycle through
connectivity based exchange of medical transactions, documents and associated
communications.

Stated J.R. "Steve" Stevens, Jopari's Chief Executive Officer: "Switching to
electronic medical bills, payments and remittance is a low-hanging green
initiative, strategically. Implementing Mitchell-Jopari Gateway Services
entails nominal IT investment to achieve an immediate green processing win.
Carbon reduction calculations show for every 1 million customer electronic
bill and payment transactions we process, more than 186 tons of paper are not
consumed - the equivalent of 173,000 trees saved; over 9,550 barrels of oil
are not burned; and generation of 7,400 tons of greenhouse gasses is avoided.
The National Automated Clearinghouse Association (NACHA) provides 'green
calculator' tools that validate these kinds of green transaction savings. We
are pleased resource conservation our services provide protects our customers'
reputations and contributes to their green business objectives."

Mitchell and Jopari engage customers and business partners at all levels
defining good corporate citizenship dimensions of the Companies' sustainable
processing services. Their zero-carbon transactions deliver an environmental
dividend to customers, over and above direct dollar savings.

Remarked Tom McCarthy, Executive Vice President of Mitchell International:
"Natural resource and energy conservation is inherent to electronic
transactions. This fact allows our customers to verify and promote a clear
commitment to sustainable business practices. Our view is all insurance
payers should understand that delaying green transaction initiatives magnifies
their reputational risk as well as expense burden. Even though electronic
transactions cost 75% less in dollar terms than conventional paper workflow,
gains in corporate citizenship also rationalize conversion."

Some 12 Billion Group Health, Workers' Compensation and Auto Medical
transactions are processed annually in the United States. Each billion
medical transactions exchanged electronically is equivalent to avoiding over
73 square miles of deforestation. Mitchell and Jopari are collaborating with
customers and business partners to advance this significant environmental
protection goal.

About Mitchell International

Mitchell International, Inc. (www.mitchell.com) provides the Insurance P&C
market with a variety of technology, database and service solutions with one
goal in mind -enable our clients to process their automotive medical claims in
a timely, accurate and fair manner. Mitchell International has a 20 year track
record of delivering high-quality products and services to auto insurance
carriers, service providers and TPAs, allowing them to audit and evaluate
first and third-party provider and hospital bills. Mitchell International
currently serves many of the top automobile and workers compensation P&C
companies and is a leading provider of information, workflow, and performance
management solutions to the automotive insurance claims industry, also serving
carriers, collision repair facilities, and other commercial participants in
the physical damage and automobile and workers compensation related medical
claims markets.

About Jopari Solutions, Inc.
Jopari Solutions, Inc. supplies Integrated Compliance and Payment Solutions to
Workers' Compensation, Auto, and Health Insurance Industry Payers. Jopari
services are SAS70 Level 1 & 2 certified, in addition to HIPAA, GLBA and OFAC
compliant. Jopari significantly improves the technology Payers use to manage
bills and disbursements, substantially reducing associated expenses. Jopari
services enable insurance Payers to comply fully with regulatory requirements,
including eBill and ePay jurisdictional initiatives and HIPAA. Insurance and
other industry Payers take advantage of JopariPay(TM) to permanently downsize
bill cycle processing and labor costs, increase operational competitiveness
and realize immediate returns on investment. For more information, visit
http://www.jopari.com/

SOURCE Jopari Solutions, Inc.; Mitchell International, Inc.

John Roberts of Jopari Solutions, Inc., 1-800-903-7799, ext. 5218,
john_roberts@jopari.com