4uDoctor & HMonline Join Forces to Deliver Solution for Speedy Reimbursement for Workers' Compensation to Healthcare Providers.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

SOUTHINGTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2003

Health Management Online, Inc., (HM) and 4uDoctor of Hartford, CT, today announced a business alliance to deliver an innovative solution for workers' compensation medical billing to orthopedic practices throughout the USA.

HMonline is an Application Service Provider (ASP) that solved the problem of expediting workers' compensation bills and attachments to payers in a speedy, cost-effective way. The result is faster reimbursement with cost savings and reduction in the aggravation that has characterized the process.

4uDoctor provides a unique one-stop vendor solution for all the necessities of a modern orthopedic practice. As supply chain consolidators, 4uDoctor offers practitioners a single resource for all their office management needs including medical, surgical and office supplies.

In announcing this business alliance, Bill Chesley, HM's President and CEO said, "Providers want a single source, high quality vendor for all their supplies and services. They want to focus on delivery of care rather than administration and negotiations with vendors and insurance carriers. 4uDoctor, through our new business alliance, now offers a complete workers' compensation bill management capability. This further simplifies necessary administrative functions for healthcare providers, removes a source of aggravation and speeds payment while reducing costs."

All the workers' compensation bills from 4uDoctor's customers, regardless of payer, can be collected, edited, matched with attachments and notes and then expedited to the desktop of the insurance adjuster.

Chesley added, "What the providers like best of all is that to get these benefits there is nothing to buy - no hardware or software to install and nothing to maintain. As long as the provider has a billing system, a fax machine and an Internet connection they can register immediately."

Unlike a clearinghouse that handles simple group health claims without supporting documentation, HM's service accepts all workers' compensation bills with attachments, notes and work status forms regardless of whether they are electronic or paper-based.

Peter DeVecchis, 4uDoctor's VP of Sales and Marketing, said, "This partnership seems like a natural progression. The mission of our services is to streamline all of the business transactions a clinical administrator would encounter in the course of an average day. HMonline will certainly give support to this objective."

Health Management Online (HM) is an ASP provider of specialty productivity services to the Property & Casualty Insurance industry and is focused on workers' compensation. Based in Southington, Connecticut it is located in the heart of the insurance industry.