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GTESS Corporation Announces Outsourced Processing Contract with Washington Dental Service

April 16, 2004 (Richardson, TX) GTESS Corporation is pleased to announce it has completed its initial implementation of services providing automated claims data capture to Washington Dental Service, a member of the Delta Dental Plans Association, the nation’s largest, most experienced dental benefits system. Washington Dental Service provides high-quality, affordable dental care to more than 1.9 million people through employer-sponsored programs. Under the terms of the agreement, GTESS will provide, on an outsourced basis, pre-adjudication processing services.

GTESS CEO and President, Deborah M. Gage, said, "Washington Dental Service conducted a rigorous procurement process, and we were pleased to have been chosen as their outsourced provider for pre-adjudication processing of paper dental claims. Continuous innovation of our service offering – including enhanced dental claim services – is a hallmark of the GTESS commitment to streamlining healthcare payment processes and driving bottom-line efficiencies."

Craig Gowdey, Washington Dental Service’s CIO, said, "After an extensive evaluation process, Washington Dental Service chose GTESS as its preferred partner due to their extensive claims expertise, their economic efficiencies and their ability to effectively replace human labor with a totally automated solution."

GTESS is a provider of outsourced services, exclusively serving healthcare payers, such as HMOs, PPOs, benefit administrators and dental plans. The company leverages proprietary technology to provide payers with a total front-end claims processing solution that replaces error-prone human processes with automated technology. Our services include outsourcing claim receipt (paper and EDI claims), claim edits and verification, membership and provider validation, repricing facilitation, claim routing and tracking, document management, and 'clean claim' EDI delivery.

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Karen Hallman
GTESS
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