nTelagent, Inc. Signs Healthcare Customers LifePoint Hospitals, Psychiatric
Solutions, NES Healthcare, The Schumacher Group,
e+healthcare and Rockdale Medical Center
Company’s Self-Pay Management System Gains Rapid Market Penetration,
Improves Handling of Patient Responsibilities for Healthcare Providers
September 18, 2007 (Nashville, TN) --- Several of the nation’s leading health care
providers and outsourced partners have recently selected nTelagent, Inc’s Self-Pay
Management System to improve the handling of financial accounts for both the
healthcare providers and their patients.
“We are honored to serve as a partner to these outstanding healthcare organizations,”
states Earl Winter, founder, president and CEO of nTelagent. “Our Self-Pay
Management System is a tool that creates substantial benefits for both providers and their
patients.”
“For self-pay patients, nTelagent’s system helps ensure that their accounts are handled
properly and consistently from the point of service. This includes, where appropriate, the
automatic application of discounting and charity care considerations as allowed by the
individual healthcare provider’s business rules and accounting policies,” states Winter.
“For healthcare providers, nTelagent’s system ensures improvement in up-front cash
flow, receivables, and overall profitability by reducing bad debt and improving the
revenue cycle process for patients who are responsible for the bill, or a portion of it,
through payment requirements such as co-pays and deductibles,” adds Winter.
nTelagent’s customers represent various segments of the health care industry, including
hospitals, physician practices, specialty clinics, home health care, emergency room
outsourcing, and collections companies.
-Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:PSYS), www.psysolutions.com, offers an
extensive continuum of behavioral health programs to critically ill children, adolescents
and adults through its operation of 90 owned or leased freestanding psychiatric inpatient
facilities with approximately 10,000 beds in 31 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. PSI also manages freestanding psychiatric inpatient facilities for government
agencies and psychiatric inpatient units within medical/surgical hospitals owned by
others.
-NES Healthcare Group, www.neshealthcaregroup.com, is one of the largest physicianheld,
physician practice management firms in the world. The company is an industry
leader in emergency physician management, staffing more than 220 client facilities
worldwide. The company has six domestic offices and international branches in Britain,
Germany, Australia and South Africa.
-The Schumacher Group, www.tsged.com, is dedicated to adding value to their clients'
emergency departments. As a hospital based physician staffing organization their main
goal is the establishment of a core group of physicians within each hospital by focusing
on developing an emergency medicine practice within each emergency department. It is
The Schumacher Group’s billing company, Dallas-based EMCC, that will be using the
nTelagent solution.
-e+healthcare, www.eplushealthcare.com, is an aggressive outpatient cancer services
partner with an impressive track record of exceeding its customers and partners clinical
and financial expectations. The company’s services include PET/CT Imaging Centers,
Radiation Therapy Centers and Comprehensive Cancer Care Centers.
-Rockdale Medical Center, www.rockdalemedicalcenter.org, is a general acute care notfor-
profit hospital based in Rockdale County, Georgia, outside of Atlanta. For over 50
years, Rockdale has provided comprehensive healthcare to Rockdale County and
surrounding communities. The center offers the latest technology backed by a highly
skilled and dedicated team of physicians and healthcare professionals.
nTelagent is in advanced discussions with a large number of additional customers. The
Company is also adding strategic partners as well as other solution partners, such as
eligibility and medical banking partners. Medical banking partners provide healthcare
patients with various financing options to pay their accounts.
nTelagent is a healthcare services company based in Nashville, TN. nTelagent is focused
on helping healthcare service providers make better decisions regarding patient
responsibilities and self-pay issues, which include co-pays, deductibles, underinsured
patients and all categories of patients where bad debt is an issue. nTelagent’s solution
properly identifies patient demographic and insurance verification information and, based
upon a healthcare organization’s specific rules and policies, addresses all patients and
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Charity applications in a consistent and non-discriminatory manner. The nTelagent
system also enables hospitals to ensure better government compliance reporting and
tracking.
nTelagent is privately funded by a group of seasoned healthcare investors, who are
actively involved in the growth and development of the Company. An early investor in
nTelagent is Marty Rash, former founder, chairman and CEO of Province Healthcare
Company, a publicly-held hospital management company (formerly NASDAQ:PRV)
acquired by LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. (NASDAQ:LPNT) in 2005. The late Chris Hannon,
former CFO of Province, was also a key investor and instrumental in the development of
the solution and direction of the Company. Other investors include Joel and Frank
Gordon, through their investment firm, Crofton Capital; Jeff Rice, a healthcare
entrepreneur and physician; and Laura Campbell, a private investor who was founding
executive director of the Nashville Health Care Council.
For more information, visit www.ntelagent.com.
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Laura Campbell
CEO, Laura Campbell & Associates
laura@laura-campbell.com
615-579-6599