CORRECTING and REPLACING Geisinger Health System Implements ABILITY Network to Provide Secure Connectivity to Medicare

ABILITY NOW to streamline Medicare claims and status verification processes

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the release dated June 9, 2011 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.

“ABILITY is proud to be working with an organization of this caliber, and we look forward to providing Geisinger with the tools to best support their critical administrative operations to help better serve their patients”

The corrected release reads:

GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM IMPLEMENTS ABILITY NETWORK TO PROVIDE SECURE CONNECTIVITY TO MEDICARE

ABILITY NOW to streamline Medicare claims and status verification processes

ABILITY Network Inc.™, the nation’s largest and most secure web-based health network, announced that Geisinger Health System (GHS) has selected ABILITY’s enterprise service web-based platform to support seamless FISS access to Medicare Part A and Medicare Regional Home Health Intermediary (RHHI) programs.

Integration of the ABILITY NOW solution suite affords GHS numerous benefits related to its Medicare claims and status verification processes. Among them are: improved efficiency due to high-speed connection and reduced response times, timely reimbursements, immediate feedback on claims rejection status and single site licenses.

“ABILITY is proud to be working with an organization of this caliber, and we look forward to providing Geisinger with the tools to best support their critical administrative operations to help better serve their patients,” says Mark Briggs, CEO of ABILITY Network.

About Geisinger Health System
Geisinger is an integrated health services organization widely recognized for its innovative use of the electronic health record, and the development and implementation of innovative care models including ProvenHealth Navigator, an advanced medical home model, and ProvenCare ("warranty") program. The system serves more than 2.6 million residents throughout 42 counties in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org.

About ABILITY Network™
ABILITY works to save lives by facilitating information exchange and knowledge-sharing among every participant within the healthcare spectrum – hospitals, physician practices, home care providers, DMEs, and private and government payers – as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In use for more than a decade in more than 3,000 hospitals across the country, ABILITY’s network supports healthcare decision makers in their quest to promote care coordination and collaboration, reduce record fragmentation, participate in new and emerging care models, and access the Direct Project network and state and community-based Health Information Exchanges (HIEs).