ITRANS™

ITRANS is a leading edge Internet messaging and transmission service that provides a safe and secure method for communicating confidential health information online.

Developed by Continovation Services Inc. (CSI), ITRANS helps dental and other health professionals take full advantage of the communication potential offered by the Internet.

With this service, you and your staff will experience increased efficiencies in electronic claims processing.

Dental offices using CDAnet™, Réseau ACDQ and other claims standards can use ITRANS to transmit those claims messages and also benefit from powerful new capabilities such as radiograph transmission, online consultation and e-commerce (credit and debit card transactions are available at a preferred merchant rate).

Discover how ITRANS products enable you and your staff to work more effectively with your patients, other dentists, insurance carriers, credit card companies and your software vendor — key relationships that contribute to the success of your practice.

Key Benefits of the ITRANS Claim Service

1. Quick, secure claims transmission. Using an ITRANS Digital Certificate, the ITRANS Claim Service allows you to transmit your CDAnet claims more securely over the Internet than is possible with modem lines.

2. A single point of contact for all claims transactions. ITRANS enables you to send dental claims to the insurance companies you are currently sending CDAnet claims to (except for Alberta Blue Cross). View a complete list of networks and insurance carriers that support CDAnet online insurance claims submissions. In addition, ITRANS:

• Checks each transaction for errors and returns a response immediately.
• Stores and forwards all of your transactions even when the carrier is not available (i.e. the carrier’s network is busy or down).

3. Saves you time and money. By enabling you to track your current and pending claims on the Internet, you always know the status of a submitted claim. Also, if supported by your practice software, your office can send multiple messages (claims, credit/debit card transactions, x-rays) at the same time, whereas you currently can only send one message at a time per telephone line.

4. Secure Dentist-to-Provider transactions. The security and encryption technology used by ITRANS meets PIPEDA (Canadian privacy legislation) and HIPAA (American privacy legislation) to protect the privacy of patient information during transmission, something conventional email cannot match.

Key Benefits of the ITRANS Payment Service

1. Credit and Debit card transactions are sent securely over the Internet via the ITRANS Payment Service.

2. Transaction terminal and a dedicated phone line.

• The rental cost for the PIN pad is normally cheaper than the rental for a transaction terminal.
• If your transaction terminal uses a dedicated phone line then you can eliminate the cost for that phone line.
• If you share your claim service phone line with the payment terminal then you can eliminate the cost of this line and eliminate the hassle when both services try to dial out at the same time.

3. Know What You Are Paying! Completing the worksheet (PDF) will allow you to compare the true costs, and assist in determining whether this program will benefit your business. A lower merchant rate does not necessarily mean a lower cost to you.

Practice Management Software Vendors:

View the list of ITRANS Ready Practice Management Software Vendors.

Cost:

The ITRANS Claim Service is a benefit of membership with the Canadian Dental Association (CDA). For non-CDA members, access to the ITRANS Claim Service is $360+GST per year.

Access to the ITRANS Payment Service is $125 +GST per year for members and non-members.

Contact Information

For more information about the benefits of ITRANS Products and Services, contact:

ITRANS Help Desk
Tel.: 1-866-788-1212
Email: Support@goitrans.com
Website: www.goitrans.com

Corporate Office:

Continovation Services Inc.
800 Industrial Ave. Unit 11
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 4B8

Tel: 613-523-4938
Fax: 613-523-5869
Website: www.continovation.com

About CSI

Continovation Services Inc. (CSI) is an innovative company, whose ITRANS products help dental professionals improve patient care and increase office efficiency by providing secure electronic transaction and messaging services related to health industry transactions.

Health care providers, insurance carriers, software vendors, networks and other health industry businesses can use CSI's suite of ITRANS products.

CSI is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of the Canadian Dental Association (CDA). CDA has worked closely with participants in the health benefit claims processing industry for over 15 years.

The CDA's involvement with the health benefit claims processing industry was initiated to facilitate the electronic transmission of benefit claims in a manner that provides significant benefits to the patient, to the health care provider and to the benefit claims processing industry.

The ITRANS trademark is owned by Continovation Services Inc.

The CDAnet trademark is owned by the Canadian Dental Association.

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