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GTESS Announces Alliance with MultiPlan
Expanding PPO Connect™ Repricing Capabilities
July 7, 2004 (Richardson ,TX ) GTESS Corporation, a leading provider of business process outsourcing services for the healthcare industry, today announced an alliance with MultiPlan, Inc., which greatly expands the GTESS PPO Connect™ solution by providing GTESS clients access to MultiPlan’s unprecedented national provider network, fee negotiation services and related healthcare cost-management solutions. In addition, MultiPlan will offer its clients preferred access to GTESS’ outsourced front-end solution and repricing facilitation capabilities.
“MultiPlan’s network and out-of-network cost management solutions promise to be a big benefit to our clients,” said GTESS CEO & President Deborah M. Gage. “Our companies share a commitment to lowering healthcare costs through the application of technology, improved processes and greater connectivity.” MultiPlan joins other PPO networks and partners currently offered through PPO Connect™.
“MultiPlan has invested heavily in technology and as a result, our claims processing platform enables unprecedented throughput with more than 95 percent of claims auto-repriced,” said MultiPlan Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Warren Handelman. “With this partnership, more and more MultiPlan clients can extend these electronic efficiencies to the front end of their claims-handling processes, for even greater accuracy and faster turnaround.”
About MultiPlan, Inc.
For more than 30 years, MultiPlan has helped healthcare payers and providers partner together to combat rising healthcare costs. Based on The MultiPlan Network®, the nation’s leading independent network of over 4,000 acute-care hospitals, 86,000 ancillary facilities and 360,000 individual practitioners, MultiPlan serves as a single electronic gateway to a host of primary, complementary and out-of-network strategies for managing the financial risks associated with healthcare claims. Clients include large and mid-sized insurers, third-party administrators, self-funded plans, HMOs and other entities that pay claims on behalf of health plans. For more information, visit www.newmultiplan.com
About GTESS
GTESS provides business process outsourcing services to managed care organizations and benefit administrators. The company leverages proprietary technology to provide pre-adjudication claims processing, replacing error-prone human processes with automation. The GTESS Virtual Front End suite of services includes outsourcing claim receipt (paper and EDI claims), duplicate claim detection, claim edits and verification, membership and provider validation, repricing facilitation, claim routing and tracking, document management, and 'clean-claim' EDI delivery. For information about these services, contact your GTESS Account Representative or John McGahey, Vice President of Sales and Account Management.
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Karen Hallman
GTESS
972.792.5500
Ellen Donahue-Dalton
Dalton Associates
404.442.7900
Susan S. Bellinger
MultiPlan
301.548.2006
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