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Vendor Notebook - Jan. 18, 2008

By Healthcare Finance Staff

Concuity, a healthcare division of Trintech and Vernon Hills, Mich.-based provider of contract management and revenue recovery solutions and services, has announced that Edward Hospital of Naperville, Ill. has selected ClearContracts to improve the management of payment variances, denials and revenue recovery and EOB Pro to retrieve, consolidate and standardize electronic remittances from multiple payers into 835s.

The Cincinnati-based Convergys Corporation has announced the signing of contracts to provide customer management consulting for two pharmacy benefit management companies.

SDS, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based provider of revenue cycle management, electronic medical record, electronic document management, document conversion and storage services, practice management, release-of-information and healthcare consulting services, is changing its name to HealthPort.

The TriZetto Group, Inc. has announced the limited availability release of QuicLink Extended Enterprise 4.0 for the benefits administration market, which features a technology platform change from a Unix system to the Microsoft.NET-connected framework.

Pharmacy Healthcare Solutions of Addison, Texas, an AmerisourceBergen company, has been awarded a new pharmacy agreement for medication assistance (indigent drug recovery) by Premier Purchasing Partners, LP. The contract offers member pharmacies help in filing manufacturer claims for pharmaceuticals dispensed to uninsured or indigent patients using manufacturers' medication assistance programs.

 

Allscripts has announced that CHMB Solutions, one of the largest California-based providers of outsourced business services for physician practices, will offer the company's electronic health record and practice management solution to its nearly 500 clients and other physicians in California.

The Health Benefits Direct Corporation of Radnor, Pa. and Access Plans USA, Inc. of Irving, Texas have announced a two-year agreement between their respective subsidiaries, the Insurint Corporation and America's Health Care/Rx Plan Agency, Inc., to make Insurint's software-as-a-service quoting technology platform available to AHCP agents who enroll in the program.

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services of Minneapolis has announced the launch of HSA Director, the company's online Health Savings Account management solution that provides financial institutions and their commercial and retail clients with HSA enrollment and management capabilities.

Ontario Systems, based in Muncie, Ind., has announced that Extendicare, which owns and operates 267 long-term care facilities across North America, has selected the company's Artiva Healthcare product to manage its revenue cycle.

Metavante, a Milwaukee-based provider of banking and payments technology, has announced plans to acquire BenSoft Inc., a San Diego-based provider of solutions for third-party administrators, health plans and self-administering employers, and integrate the company's RepayMe software into its Healthcare Payment Solutions suite of products.

Cincinnati-based Cincom Systems and Provider Advantage have unveiled their Revenue360 Insurance Code Solution, a healthcare software application which is designed to increase patient registration accuracy and boost revenue, cash flow and operating margins.

 

Benefitfocus, of Charleston, S.C., has announced that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana has partnered with Benefitfocus eBilling to provide BCBSMT group clients with faster access to invoice information and improved payment and reporting services.

Hyland Software of Cleveland has signed an agreement with the national healthcare alliance VHA, Inc. to provide discounted pricing on its OnBase enterprise document management software suite to VHA's 1,400 member hospitals and 21,000 non-acute healthcare organizations.

AHI Software, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with Catholic Health East of Newtown Square, Pa. to provide its AHIQA.com registration quality assurance service.

Meru Networks, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based wireless LAN provider, has joined the PCI Security Vendor Alliance, a group chartered with providing services and best-practices guidance to retailers and other businesses required to conform to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

DataFlux, a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS, has announced that the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, the fundraising arm of Great Ormond Street Hospital in Windsor, England, has selected the company's dfPower Studio data integration solution to gain a more unified view of its "Raiser's Edge" donations database.

The Rehab 1 Corporation of Tampa, Fla. has launched Rehab Exam, a new service that allows insurance carriers to outsource physical rehabilitation-related claims to the company in order to enforce provider compliance and accountability during the reimbursement process.