The SSI Group, Inc. and nTelagent, Inc. Announce Healthcare Alliance
Mobile, Alabama, February 6, 2008 - The SSI Group, Inc. (SSI) and nTelagent, Inc. today announced that they have entered into an alliance that will enable SSI’s ClickON® PREVENT customers to access nTelagent’s proprietary front-end business solution, the Self Pay Management System (SPMS). This service will enable healthcare service providers to determine patient responsibility for both uninsured and insured patients including insurance verification, co-pays and deductibles, at the point of service. nTelagent’s system integrates a service providers unique policies and procedures with a patient’s demographic data to provide interactive scripts for registrars and financial counselors at the point of service and/or post service.
SSI provides an extensive array of provider/payer/patient/physician services and technologies for managing cash flow, claims processing, real-time eligibility, and claims status and contract/denial/document management. Under this agreement, SSI’s EDI solutions will be offered in conjunction with nTelagent’s SPMS patient demographic information and a service provider’s unique business rules.
“nTelagent’s SPMS will compliment our current suite of products and will offer a benefit to our users. It is a good fit for our ClickON® PREVENT product which not only focuses on real-time error correction but also provides integrated eligibility and a total self-pay solution for service providers,” said Debbie Short, Chief Operating Officer for The SSI Group, Inc.
“Our front-end solution will help to enhance SSI’s service within their ClickON® PREVENT product,” said Earl Winter, chief executive officer of nTelagent. “We are delighted to be working with SSI, whose expertise and 20 years of experience in the industry is well recognized.”
The SSI Group, Inc. is a healthcare information technology company supporting provider/payer/physician services in managing their revenue cycle recovery – claims processing (ASP, Direct/Clearinghouse), document management and revenue cycle outsourcing. Headquartered in Mobile, Ala. the company supports over 2,200 customers nationwide with over 1 million built-in edits and over 1300 payer connections. The company is an industry leader processing more than 250 million transitions annually, totaling in excess of $400 billion. Additional information is available at www.thessigroup.com.
nTelagent is a healthcare services company based in Franklin, Tenn., 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 Self Pay Management System also properly identifies patient demographic and insurance verification information and based upon a healthcare organization’s specific rules and policies, nTelagent’s solution addresses all charity applications in a nondiscriminatory manner. nTelagent’s technology ensures more money is collected up-front before services are rendered. The nTelagent SPMS also enables hospitals to ensure better government compliance reporting and tracking. For more information, visit www.ntelagent.com. |
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