MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis., – July 8, 2025 – SKYGEN, an industry leader in technology-driven solutions for dental and vision benefit management services, presented its 2025 Powering Transformation Awards at the company’s annual invite-only TRANSFORM Summit. The awards recognize the client partners who are driving meaningful progress in the benefits space, leveraging SKYGEN’s digital-first platforms. This year’s recipients include MetLife, Pacific Life, Aflac and UPMC Health Plan.
“These Powering Transformation recipients aren’t just adopting SKYGEN technology; they’re using it to rewrite the playbook on how specialty benefits work,” said John Schaak, Chief Innovation and Growth Officer, SKYGEN. “We are proud to collaborate with partners who are redefining what is possible. This year’s winners exemplify that partnership and how bold strategy paired with the right technology can create measurable value for members, providers and payers alike.”
In addition to creating efficiencies, elevating patient experiences and reimagining the future of care, with the support of SKYGEN, all award recipients have made significant strides in their respective fields, including:
- Through their utilization of SKYGEN’s Dental Hub, MetLife is taking an unprecedented step in the industry toward establishing a common credentialing cycle.
- Aflac’s utilization of industry-leading automation represents an aggressive step forward in their growth plan, enabled by improved customer service.
- With SKYGEN’s end-to-end third-party administration (TPA) services and Dental Hub, Pacific Life can now launch new groups in just days.
- Leveraging SKYGEN’s data warehouse, UPMC Health Plan has created an impressive data lake, marking a significant step toward a more efficient data model.
Powering Healthcare Innovation – MetLife
Leading a major shift in provider credentialing, SKYGEN acknowledges MetLife for becoming one of the first payers to align credentialing dates across all their provider networks using the Dental Hub. This unprecedented move simplifies the process for more than 100,000 providers, replacing repetitive recredentialing packets with a streamlined digital workflow that reduces administrative burden and ensures more accurate data updates that benefit providers, payers and patients.
“At MetLife, we began this journey with a clear goal: to solve the credentialing challenge and improve provider data management,” said Naveen Kuncharam, Director – Provider Experience, MetLife. “MetLife teamed up with SKYGEN to make joining our network as seamless and frictionless as possible—and the Dental Hub delivers exactly that. SKYGEN’s innovative solutions and outstanding team have made a real difference, and we look forward to continuing this strategic relationship.”
Powering Healthcare Administration – Aflac
This award recognizes partners that implement innovative programs or benefit designs to stay ahead of evolving market demands. This year, SKYGEN proudly honors Aflac’s Dental and Vision businesses for harnessing SKYGEN’s advanced automation technology to enhance claims and billing processes, improving speed, accuracy and overall customer experience. As a result, Aflac strengthened customer and provider trust, increased operational efficiency and boosted both policyholder confidence and sales. With a clear growth strategy and strong leadership support, Aflac is well-positioned to accelerate success and maintain a competitive edge in the evolving benefits landscape.
“Aflac Dental and Vision has experienced significant improvements in both turnaround times and quality metrics throughout the value stream, which has helped facilitate ongoing enhancements to services that we provide our customers and our accounts,” said Lucas Mehl, vice president of post sales operations at Aflac Dental & Vision. “We are pleased with the partnership and technology solutions we have seen while engaging with SKYGEN, along with the hard-working Aflac team, that have enabled across the board improvements, empowering us to deliver on service promises consistent with the Aflac Brand.”
Powering Healthcare Automation – Pacific Life
Awarding partners that leverage automation to drive scalability and enhance industry collaboration, SKYGEN recognizes Pacific Life’s innovative approach to building a fully digital benefits management ecosystem. By integrating SKYGEN’s end-to-end TPA solutions and Dental Hub technology, Pacific Life streamlined plan development, enrollment and group implementation. These advancements have supported exponential dental membership growth, fueled by the company’s nationwide expansion of distribution channels. With a strong digital foundation in place, Pacific Life is positioned for sustained success in the dental benefits market.
“Our dental product offering has been a critical part of our successful launch into the workforce benefits market”, said Rob Mulligan, Vice President, Product & Underwriting at Pacific Life Workforce Benefits. “We needed a partner who is flexible, innovative, and able to scale quickly with our digitally native ecosystem and SKYGEN’s TPA solutions along with their exceptional support team have consistently risen to the challenge and given us the confidence that they will continue to grow with us.”
Powering Healthcare Analytics – UPMC Health Plan
This award recognizes partners who use big data analytics to reduce fraud, waste and abuse while promoting the most appropriate and efficient care for members. UPMC Health Plan is being honored for its exceptional use of SKYGEN’s data warehouse, developing a powerful ‘data lake’ that significantly enhances their internal efficiency and productivity. This technology enables on-demand reporting, utilization monitoring, member communications and streamlined management of provider directories and member portals. UPMC Health Plan is now making faster, data-driven decisions that improve care delivery and maintain their leadership in an evolving healthcare landscape.
These award recipients exemplify SKYGEN’s commitment to innovation, collaboration and transforming the dental and vision benefits industry. By embracing cutting-edge technology and choosing SKYGEN as a strategic partner, these leaders are setting new benchmarks for efficiency, provider experience and member care. SKYGEN looks forward to continuing to support and celebrate partners who are driving meaningful progress and shaping the future of healthcare administration.
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ABOUT SKYGEN
SKYGEN transforms dental and vision benefits management and administration with flexible technology and services that connect and change lives for the better. Through partnerships with payers, providers and government agencies, SKYGEN helps its customers navigate dental and vision benefits management and administration. With its portfolio of third-party administration (TPA), intelligent Software as a Service (SaaS) automation, marketplace connectivity, risk management solutions and above-and-beyond services like Enhanced Benefit Management (EBM), Provider Select Suite platforms, mobile apps and portals, SKYGEN serves nearly 50 million members across all 50 states, more than 40 government and commercial insurers and process 3 million claims monthly. For more information, please visit www.skygenusa.com.
