“With more than 8 million covered lives, Kaiser Permanente is the largest not-for-profit health plan in the nation and a major player in the industry,” states Bob Leary, CEO of HSS, Inc. “Working closely with such a prestigious health system is a great honor for HSS. These contracts will dramatically increase utilization of HSS’ products and support services, with a planned rollout to introduce HSS software to the organization nationwide.”

The organization will implement HSS’ EASYGroup™ product to assist them in verifying, warehousing, and supporting the new Medicare Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) reporting and reimbursement requirements. This system supports required reporting to HCFA of Medicare outpatient utilization and billing, and it provides critical decision support data.

In addition, the organization’s Mid-Atlantic Region will adopt HSS’ EASYGroup to support grouping and pricing of Medicare inpatient and outpatient claims. Several departments in that region will be using WinStrat™, HSS’ desktop coding and reimbursement package. The WinStrat system verifies individual claim analysis, contract management and contract development. HSS’ proprietary National Medicare Provider Rate File provides a tool to assist in management of out-of-network claims.

ABOUT HSS

HSS, Inc., headquartered in Hamden, Connecticut, specializes in medical intelligence software for coding, reimbursement and profiling of healthcare services to help the industry understand and improve its techniques for managing the finance and delivery of medical care. For more information about HSS products and services, contact HSS’ marketing department at 888.463-6477 (INFO HSS) or visit the Web at www.hssweb.com.