CareGuide Announces New Client Agreements and Contract Expansions.CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- CareGuide, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : CGDE CGDE Contact Glow Discharge Electrolysis ), an integrated population health management company, today announced the addition and launch of six new commercial and Medicare health plan and employer clients. The CareGuide offerings selected include Complex Care Management, Utilization Review u·til·i·za·tion review n. A process for monitoring the use, delivery, and cost-effectiveness of services, especially those provided by medical professionals. , Case Management, Nurse Help Line, Health Survey and Health Coaching solutions. Neenah Paper will launch CareGuide's One Care Street[TM] Health Perception Survey, Predictive Modeling and Health Coaching tools for their employees. One Care Street (OCS OCS - Object Compatibility Standard ), recently in the news for multiple client reports of exceptional results, will launch services for Neenah Paper this month. Additionally, a national health plan has chosen CareGuide to provide complex care management services (CCM CCM Contemporary Christian Music CCM Critical Care Medicine CCM County College of Morris (New Jersey) CCM Chama Cha Mapinduzi (political party, Tanzania) CCM CORBA Component Model ) to its population. CCM is an intensive care management approach, assisting chronically ill and medically complex individuals who often require extensive and frequent personal contact to assure the effective coordination of multiple services and attention to relevant non-medical factors. This agreement represents an expansion of CareGuide's work with this plan's California Medicare population. CareGuide will also support this customer through its nationwide growth and restructuring efforts. CareGuide has also expanded its Utilization Review and Case Management (UR/CM) businesses through long-standing strategic partnerships with CBCA CBCA Centro Brasileiro da Construção em Aço CBCA Canadian Business Corporations Act CBCA Calgary Birth Control Association CBCA Charlotte Builders and Contractors Association CBCA Chilled Beam and Ceiling Association Administrators, Inc. (CBCA) and Pequot Plus Health Benefit Services (Pequot). This month, CareGuide launched its UR/CM services for two additional CBCA clients, Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc. (AERT AERT Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc AERT Animal Emergency Response Team ) and Crittenden Memorial Hospital, as well as one of Pequot's clients, Akwesasne Mohawk Casino. J Pegues, CareGuide chief marketing and sales officer, said, "We believe this expansion in our health plan relationships and in our Medicare business, Neenah Paper and our TPA (Transient Program Area) See transient area. TPA - Transient Program Area customers is indicative of the growing market acceptance of our next generation health and trend management offerings. As the marketplace continues to search for better solutions to persistent problems, CareGuide is well positioned to meet that need." CareGuide has also completed the service implementation this month for another major health plan customer that provides services to government sponsored health plans, such as Medicare and Medicaid Medicare and Medicaid U.S. government programs in effect since 1966. Medicare covers most people 65 or older and those with long-term disabilities. Part A, a hospital insurance plan, also pays for home health visits and hospice care. . CareGuide is supporting this valued new customer by delivering intensive care management services for a special needs population. About CareGuide Headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida Coral Springs, officially chartered July 10, 1963, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. According to the U.S. , CareGuide delivers health optimizing solutions that represent the next generation of disease management and health coaching. CareGuide distinguishes itself by combining high human touch with sharply focused technology to identify, engage, and help individuals in need - the Company's focus is to find more, miss fewer, and help better. Because of its unique One Care Street[TM] approach, CareGuide can identify an unprecedented two-thirds of the next year's high utilizers of medical services and impact the medical trend of the entire population in a health plan or employer group. Visit www.careguide.com for more information. This release contains information about management's view of the Company's future expectations, financial results, plans, and prospects, including impact on future sales and marketing success, that constitutes forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from historical results or those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the acceptability of the Company's product offerings in the marketplace as well as other factors that are discussed in the Company's Transition Report on Form 10-KSB for the nine months ended December 31, 2006, filed with the SEC on April 17, 2007, the Company's Form 10-QSBs for the three months ended March 31, 2007, and June 30, 2007, filed with the SEC on May 15, 2007, and August 14, 2007, respectively, as well as other documents the Company files with the SEC. |
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