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Tuesday, April 06, 1999

National Credentialing Firm Helps Managed Care Organization Facilitate Credentialing Information

"We are extremely excited to be working with One Call" said John C. Barrett, Sr. Vice President of Med Advantage. " We are improving the process in our office by contracting with Med Advantage for outsourcing the credentialing process and CACTUS Software for the credentialing database", says Sherri Beauregard, Manager of Provider Relations. "We're excited about our affiliation with both companies. Quality is very important to our organization and we fully expect our relationship with Med Advantage and CACTUS to support and improve the process in the credentialing of our network."

Med Advantage will provide various credentialing services including receiving information and conducting primary source verifications to meet NCQA guidelines and working very closely with Visual CACTUS, which offers a powerful credentialing software system designed to meet the diverse needs of the healthcare companies. This combination will streamline the credentialing process and provide a powerful provider data management system.

One Call Medical, Inc. ("OCM") provides specialty medical management services to the workers' compensation industry. Our customers include the nations' leading workers' compensation insurers and third party administrators as well as self-insured employers. The focus of One Call's efforts is "early return to work." This is accomplished by using its advanced process management systems, which actively channel patients into the preferred provider network of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerized tomography (CT) centers. The benefits to One Call Medical customers are real and demonstrable: expedited procedure turnaround time and substantial cost savings on diagnostic imaging examinations.

Med Advantage is recognized as one of the country's largest and most well established Credentials Verification Organizations (CVOs). Med Advantage is fully certified in 10 of 10 elements by NCQA as a CVO for both managed care and behavioral healthcare. Further, Med Advantage was one of the first CVOs in the country accredited by the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission / URAC. The data warehouse of information that Med Advantage has compiled currently holds information on over 900,000 healthcare providers and has over 4.3 million elements verified according to both NCQA and the Joint Commission on Accreditation (JCAHO) standards.

Computer Technology Corporation d.b.a. CACTUS software is based in Prairie Village just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. Where they develop, support and market the leading credentialing and provider management software for hospitals and managed care organizations. Visual CACTUS was released in 1996 and is currently installed in over 350 hospitals and over 150 managed care and multi-entity organizations nationwide.

* The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), located in Washington, DC, is an independent, non-profit organization that certifies credentials verification organizations and accredits managed care organizations.

** The American Accreditation HealthCare Commission / URAC is a non-profit entity founded in 1990 to establish accreditation standards for managed health care organizations. The Commission / URAC's broad based membership represents a diversity of health care constituencies; industry, provider, purchasers, consumers, and regulators. Purchasers and consumers look to Commission / URAC accreditation as a mark of distinction for a managed health care company. For more information about the Commission / URAC, visit their web site at WWW.URAC.ORG