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GTESS Corporation Appoints Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

May 11, 2005 (Richardson, TX) GTESS Corporation, a leading provider of business process outsourcing services for the healthcare industry, today announced that the Company has appointed Andrea Overman as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Overman is an experienced senior leader with more than 25 years experience in strategic planning, marketing, sales operations and organization redesign – 20 years of which have been spent in the healthcare industry.

“GTESS is a company of innovators with an unparalleled track record of bringing new services and technologies to market in our sector. As we continue to increase our market visibility and expand strategic alliances and service offerings, the need for experienced strategic marketing leadership has increased,” said Deborah M. Gage, CEO and president of GTESS. “Andrea brings that depth of healthcare leadership and marketing expertise to the table and we are pleased to welcome her to the team."

About Andrea Overman
Ms. Overman joins GTESS from VHA Inc., a national cooperative of not-for-profit health care organizations. She served a variety of roles in her 12 years at VHA, most recently as Senior VP of Marketing. Prior to that, Ms. Overman was a VP in VHA's Care Continuum Services division, and a Senior Director and Director of Marketing for VHA's Pharmacy Business Unit. Before joining VHA, she held marketing and sales management positions at Mallinckrodt Medical, Inc. (a division of Tyco Healthcare) in St. Louis, MO. Ms. Overman holds a BA in Journalism from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.

About GTESS Corporation
GTESS Corporation provides business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions that help healthcare plans and benefit managers automate the management and administration of healthcare payment systems, greatly improving process efficiencies and productivity, while reducing errors, overpayments and costs. GTESS provides customers with a total pre-adjudication medical claims process system called the Claims Gateway Solution – a suite of integrated, client-customized software modules for claims receipt, verification, data quality improvement, duplicate claim detection, member and provider verification, PPO-Connect™ network management and repricing services, claim routing and tracking, and document management. The Claims Gateway Solution uses business process management (BPM) technologies to create new efficiencies and offer process transparency throughout the claim process. 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. We deliver higher-quality data and cleaner claims which result in dramatic improvements in turn-around times and processing costs.

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