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Corporation Announces HIPAA Privacy Compliance:
Appoints HIPAA Officer and Staff

(Richardson, Texas -- January 9, 2003) – GTESS Corporation, a leading provider of outsourced business process services to the healthcare industry, announced that it has demonstrated compliance readiness with HIPAA Privacy regulations and the Texas Medical Records Privacy Regulations. This announcement is the result of extensive work with Dynamic Health Strategies (DHS) of Houston, Texas, which specializes in helping companies comply with HIPAA regulations. GTESS is scheduled to receive DHS’ HIPAA Chronicle™ report, which demonstrates GTESS’ commitment to privacy and its compliance readiness.

GTESS also announced the appointment of Donna Fendley, Vice President of Operations, as the Company’s HIPAA Compliance Officer, and Paul Davis, Director of Product Marketing, as HIPAA Privacy Contact. Ms. Fendley, a 20-year veteran of the healthcare industry, will spearhead the Company’s efforts in achieving and maintaining full compliance with all HIPAA rules. Mr. Davis, an information technology specialist, will assist in those efforts.

" HIPAA privacy regulations make handling billions of paper healthcare claims a nightmare for healthcare payors and administrators," said GTESS CEO Deborah Gage. "Not only are we compliant with these regulations, but our systems make it significantly easier for our clients to achieve privacy compliance as well."

" GTESS is committed to staying ahead of the HIPAA compliance curve itself – and to being a valuable partner to healthcare payors as they seek comprehensive solutions for streamlining their front-end processes," continued CEO Gage.

Dr. Trudy Millard Krause, Vice President of Dynamic Health Strategies, said, "GTESS has been a most committed and responsive organization on HIPAA Privacy compliance actions." "We consider the company the "gold standard" for its approach to compliance readiness." GTESS Corporation offers significant operating efficiencies to the healthcare industry through a range of outsourced solutions that streamline electronic claims processing. The company specializes in providing full front-end services, from paper or electronic claims receipt and validation to data archival and retrieval. By receiving "clean claims" in HIPAA-compliant formats, GTESS clients achieve higher auto-adjudication rates, maintain peak-level processing capacity and eliminate their backlog -- all with guaranteed turnaround time and data accuracy.

Dynamic Health Strategies combines technology, audit discipline, proprietary methods and analytical software to guide over 175 leading companies and their providers in achieving regulatory compliance and improved quality of healthcare. Our team of industry-leading professionals specializes in healthcare data analysis, quality of care, outcomes and effective healthcare management, all with an eye towards improved health and your company’s bottom-line. Dynamic Health Strategies provides turnkey services in HIPAA Compliance, HEDIS Audits, Group Health Analysis, Public Health Services and Data Cleansing & Reconciliation. For more information, please visit www.dhsgroup.com.

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Karen Hallman
GTESS
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