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GTESS Appoints James P. Bradley to Board of Directors

Company strengthens hosted software solution; adds former United HealthCare, McKesson technology executive and entrepreneur to board of directors

January 24, 2006 (Richardson,TX) GTESS Corporation, a leading provider of total pre-adjudication claims processing technology for the healthcare industry, today announced the appointment of James P. Bradley to its board of directors. Mr. Bradley is currently partnered with Northrop Grumman Corporation as the Program Director for their contract with U.S. Health and Human Services to develop a prototype infrastructure of a national health information network.

A long-time healthcare technology strategist, Mr. Bradley serves on the board of directors for the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and chaired that Board from 2002-2005. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the University of Minnesota Medical Center - Fairview, and is a director of Prematics, a Washington, DC-based startup in the e-prescribing field. Further, he has served in many of the industry's most progressive organizations, including United HealthCare Corporation. As chief information officer there, he led a systems organization that received a patent for the use of artificial intelligence technology in health care. His organization was ranked by Computerworld magazine as a top ten most effective information technology management team and one of the world's top 100 strategic users of IT. After United HealthCare, Mr. Bradley was chief technology strategy officer at iMcKesson, the internet technology division of McKesson Corporation, the largest drug distribution and healthcare technology company in the world. Before that, Mr. Bradley founded and served as chairman and CEO of Abaton.com, Inc., a developer of web-based physician connectivity services and applications, which was purchased by McKesson. Mr. Bradley was also president of Health Systems Integration Inc., a managed healthcare software and communication technology company.

He most recently led RxHub, LLC as CEO of the nationwide electronic prescription drug information exchange.

"Throughout my career, I have been privileged to lead outstanding teams and organization-wide technology initiatives to streamline complex healthcare transactions, so being part of GTESS is a natural fit," said Mr. Bradley. "This company has evolved its strategy to focus on hosted software that powers automation in the front end—where I think plans and payers need alternatives for lower-cost, higher-performance processing."

"We are honored to have Jim Bradley bring his deep customer and industry perspective, along with healthcare payment technology experience to our team," said Deborah M. Gage, GTESS president and CEO. "His broad knowledge, experience and relationships in the industry will be a great addition to our board."

GTESS Corporation provides healthcare payers and plans with a total pre-adjudication claims processing solution called The GTESS System™. A suite of integrated, client-customized software applications, The GTESS System completes data conversion, claim cleaning, and claim edit resolution while providing transparent integration of data back to the client environment. It is delivered either as hosted software or in a "software as a service" (SAAS) model. Clients using The GTESS System and/or other GTESS technologies such as network management / repricing, document management and overpayment protection, benefit from streamlined, lower-cost, higher-quality claims, powered by underlying business process management (BPM) technologies to drive downstream efficiencies and provide process transparency. Our 'clean-claim' HIPAA-compliant electronic data interchange (EDI) delivery systems go beyond what can be achieved by automating parts of the process or outsourcing operations off-shore.

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Ellen Donahue-Dalton
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