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About John Bikus

John is the President of PBI Research Services. Prior to joining the company, John helped start, grow and successfully sell two online companies – ObitData.com (leading online data and research company) and Legacy.com (global leader in online obituary services). He also has marketing, sales, and research experience with Kraft Foods and AC Nielsen. John holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.

PBI Press Release: PBI Launches CertiCensus® – The First Single Source Pension Plan Population Management Solution

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 14, 2021 — PBI Research Services, the leading death audit and locate service provider, today announced the launch of CertiCensus®, the industry's first single source proactive pension plan population management solution to help pension plans reduce costs, eliminate overpayments, ensure regulatory compliance and mitigate cybersecurity risk. CertiCensus offers continuous participant monitoring for always-up-to-date census data, comprehensive reporting and a full audit trail. This complete population management solution includes: identifying decedents with CertiDeath®, locating missing [...]

John Bikus2023-06-16T09:53:12-05:00September 14th, 2021|News, Pensions, Population Management & CertiCensus|

How Do You Handle False Positives from the Death Master File?

Death Audit false positives are defined as identifying a decedent who isn’t actually deceased. False positives result in unplanned organizational expense and incorrect payment stoppage. As a result, false positives can be painful to both those sending and receiving ongoing planned payments, e.g. pension plans/participants and beneficiaries, insurance companies/annuitants. Minimizing false positives while maximizing number of decedents identified should be the goal of any Death Audit system. However, it is virtually impossible to avoid [...]

John Bikus2024-04-26T14:46:43-05:00February 25th, 2021|Death Audit & CertiDeath|