CSC announces managed Medicaid outsourcing pact with Gateway Health Plan.FARMINGTON HILLS Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 1996--Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSC) Thursday announced an outsourcing contract to process managed Medicaid claims for Gateway Health Plan of Pittsburgh. Terms of the contract were not released. Under the agreement, CSC will provide remote managed Medicaid claims processing and encounter processing, MIS services, data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and decision-support systems. The work will be performed by CSC Healthcare Systems, a division of CSC, at its newly opened Business Solutions Center in Albany, N.Y. Gateway Health Plan was established in 1993 to provide managed- care services to Pittsburgh's Medicaid population. With approximately 95,000 covered lives, Gateway has been instrumental in increasing the area's managed Medicaid population from negligible numbers to 29 percent in less than four years. ``We are pleased to be partnering with the managed Medicaid leader for Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania Western Pennsylvania consists of the western third of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. Pittsburgh is the largest city in the region, with a metropolitan area of about 2.4 million people, and is the cultural center for Western Pennsylvania. ,'' said George S. Huntzinger, president of CSC Healthcare Systems. ``Through our Business Solutions Center, we will provide Gateway with high-quality and cost-effective services necessary to support their managed Medicaid business.'' Based in Farmington Hills, CSC Healthcare Systems markets information systems, consulting and outsourcing services to support managed-care organizations and integrated delivery systems integrated delivery system Integrated provider Medical practice A coordinated health care system formed by physician groups and hospitals which ↑ efficiency and ↓ redundancy in providing health care; IDSs coordinate delivery of a broad range of health . Its Business Solution Center was developed to provide comprehensive outsourcing and claims processing services to the managed-health-care industry. Computer Sciences Corp. had $5 billion in revenues for the 12 months ended June 30, 1996, including 12 months of revenues from the recently acquired Continuum Co., which have been combined with CSC's revenues because the acquisition is accounted for as a pooling of interests Pooling of Interests An accounting method, used in mergers and acquisitions, where the balance sheet items of the two companies are simply added together. Notes: The opposite of pooling of interests is the purchase acquisition method. . CSC has headquarters in El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif., and has 40,000 employees in 600 offices worldwide, providing clients with a wide range of professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. including management consulting, business re-engineering, information-systems consulting and integration, and outsourcing. Media queries to CSC can be made through the Internet at rpickard@csc.com. CSC's Internet home page address: http://www.csc.com. CSC press releases and literature can be requested via Fax on Demand at 800/549-0676 or via mail at 310/615-4455. CONTACT: CSC Healthcare Systems Heather Pacheco, 810/553-0900 Hpacheco@cscmail.csc.com |
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