New app for Apple iPhone and iPod touch mobile digital devices allows GroupNet members to submit insurance claims 'on the go'

WINNIPEG, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Great-West Life today introduced an innovative mobile application that gives registered members of GroupNet™ for Plan Members added service and convenience.

The new app, GroupNet Mobile, provides secure mobile access to personalized coverage information, allows online submission of healthcare claims, and provides the location of the nearest healthcare providers with access to Great-West Life's Provider eClaims through a built-in GPS-based mapping tool.

"GroupNet Mobile responds to the growing number of smart phone owners who use mobile devices to manage a wide range of personal information," said Brad Fedorchuk, Vice-President of Group Marketing, Great-West Life. "This app builds on the convenience of GroupNet for Plan Members, which brings together the information and tools plan members need in a secure, easy-to-use website."

GroupNet Mobile enhances Great-West Life's innovative suite of eClaims services - Member eClaims, Provider eClaims and Health SolutionsPlus - which allows plan members and healthcare providers to manage claims and accounts online without filing paper forms.

GroupNet Mobile follows the company's launch in 2011 of DrugHub, an app that allows consumers to manage their prescription medications wherever they are. Both can be downloaded free from the App Store online store.

About Great-West Life
Founded in Winnipeg in 1891, Great-West Life has long been a leader in the group benefits marketplace. The company has established this position over many decades, through its commitment to superior customer service and through a comprehensive selection of cost-effective benefits plans. Great-West Life offers effective benefit solutions for employee groups of any size. The company serves the needs of more than 32,000 plan sponsors and their plan members, and handles approximately 50 million group health and dental claims transactions for its plan members and their dependants each year.

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SOURCE Great-West Life Assurance Company