Samaritan Health Services Selects Quovadx Financial Interoperability Solutions

  
    
  
  
    
      Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), a global software and vertical solution 
      company, today announced that Samaritan Health Services, a network of 
      Oregon hospitals, physicians and senior care facilities serving the 
      mid-Willamette Valley and the Central Oregon coast, has selected the 
      QUOVADX™ Cash Accelerator Suite and services 
      to power its Financial Interoperability solutions, including INSURENET® 
      Hub and INSURENET® Direct modules, to 
      provide direct connectivity between the organization and its payer 
      organizations and business partners.
    
    
      Cash Accelerator and services from Quovadx will allow Samaritan Health 
      Services to automate the process of verifying patient eligibility. 
      Further, this information can now be directly incorporated into the 
      organization’s Meditech registration and 
      patient accounting systems, thereby eliminating the need for manual data 
      entry and improving the accuracy of collected data. Previously, 
      Samaritan Health Services conducted this process by calling in each 
      individual eligibility request by phone or checking payer Web sites.
    
    
      “With Quovadx, we have moved from a completely 
      manual insurance verification process to an efficient and accurate 
      automated process, which allows us to gain more timely access to 
      information and reduce errors,” said Bob 
      French, chief information officer, Samaritan Health Services. “Further, 
      we have improved service to our patients by simplifying the registration 
      process and reducing denial of claims. These improvements save staff 
      across our facilities valuable time and resources which can be 
      redirected to improving patient care.”
    
    
      Cash Accelerator will be actively integrated with the health system’s 
      Meditech hospital information system (HIS). With this integration, users 
      will be able to automatically send messages to payers to confirm 
      eligibility directly through the HIS system without needing to toggle to 
      a different application or move to a different terminal. In addition, 
      users will be able to perform the address verification, credit checks 
      and charity eligibility assessment automatically during the registration 
      process.
    
    
      “As healthcare organizations face increasing 
      financial pressures due to the rising cost of patient care, the growing 
      uninsured population, and increasingly complex reimbursement 
      requirements, the ability to improve revenue cycle accuracy and 
      efficiency is critical,” said Afshin 
      Cangarlu, president, Integration Solutions division, and executive vice 
      president, Quovadx. “We are pleased to work 
      with Samaritan Health System to help them improve their insurance 
      verification and demographic validation processes, which will aid in 
      increased cash flow and improved cost management.”
    
    
      QUOVADX™ Cash Accelerator Suite, including 
      INSURENET® Hub and INSURENET® 
      Direct modules, provide HIPAA compliant, flexible access and real-time 
      verification to more than 2,300 health plans in the U.S. through direct 
      payer connections and four clearinghouse connections. Robust data 
      quality tools provide for bi-directional, integrated processing to speed 
      and simplify the financial transaction process for healthcare providers 
      and public health organizations, saving valuable resources and 
      increasing the speed at which claims can be processed and paid. Cash 
      Accelerator Suite provides a single interface through which the full set 
      of real-time HIPAA transactions including claim submission, claim status 
      and referral processing, as well as credit checks or address 
      verifications, can be processed, verified, stored and retrieved.
    
    
      About Samaritan Health Services
    
    
      Samaritan Health Services (SHS) is a network of Oregon hospitals 
      offering a regional trauma center and more than 22 medical specialties 
      including comprehensive cancer care, a full-service cardiology and 
      cardiac and vascular surgery program, as well as other regional services 
      over 150 primary care and specialty physicians, health plans and senior 
      care facilities that serve the needs of over 250,000 people in the 
      mid-Willamette Valley and the Central Oregon Coast.
    
    
      About Quovadx, Inc.
    
    
      Quovadx (Nasdaq: QVDX) offers software and services for system 
      development, extension, integration and analysis to enterprise customers 
      worldwide. Quovadx has three divisions, including the Integration 
      Solutions division (ISD), which offers private and public healthcare 
      organizations software infrastructure to facilitate system 
      interoperability and leverage existing technology, the CareScience 
      division, which provides care management and analytical solutions to 
      hospitals and health systems and pioneered regional healthcare 
      information organization (RHIO) technology, and the Rogue Wave Software 
      division, which provides software and services for enterprise-class 
      application development and high-performance SOA. Quovadx serves 
      companies in the healthcare, financial services, telecommunication and 
      public sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.quovadx.com.
    
    
      QUOVADX and INSURENET are trademarks of Quovadx, Inc. All 
      other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the 
      companies with which they are associated.