Cybear Chosen to Provide Connectivity to Five Physician Organizations in Four States.

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 26, 1999--

Cybear, Inc. (Nasdaq:CYBA), the Internet-based portal and provider of healthcare communications and applications, announced today it has signed agreements to serve as the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to offer connectivity and online services to five separate Independent Practice Associations (IPAs) and their more than 1,000 physicians members.

The physicians, located in four geographically disparate states, will be connected through Cybear's Solutions MD private Intranet application, which provides industry-leading privacy and security while it supports the communication and administrative needs of busy medical offices.

The new IPAs that have contracted with Cybear include:

-- Narrows IPA, with approximately 400 physician members in

multi-specialty, private practices and large group organizations,

mostly throughout Staten Island, N.Y.

-- Tidewater Physicians Services, with 190 physician members in

communities surrounding Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Va. A

provider-owned Medical Management Services Organization,

Tidewater was formed by Preferred Physicians Medical Group, an

IPA model multi-specialty group, and its managing partners, to

meet the needs of the Hampton Roads medical community.

-- Integrity Healthcare, a multi-specialty IPA with 256 physician

members having practices throughout Camden, Burlington and

Gloucester counties in Southern New Jersey.

-- Meridian Association of Physicians, which encompasses 109

physician members in the southern Portland suburb of Tualatin,

Oregon. The self-employed membership represents 65 medical

offices in solo or group practices.

-- Doctors of Clackamas County, which is based in Oregon City,

Oregon, includes 110 (primary care and specialists) physician

members located in areas surrounding Portland. This IPA

represents 18,000 capitated lives and is affiliated with the

Clackamas Regional Health System Physician Hospital Organization.

These IPAs provide a variety of services to their membership, including one or more of the following: discounts on medical supply purchases, preferred rates for disability and malpractice insurance, credentialing, assistance in negotiating rates with HMOs for IPA members in risk contracts, and access to capitated health plans.

"While all IPAs provide numerous services to their physician members, no two IPAs are alike. These agreements demonstrate the flexibility and growing acceptance of Solutions MD to serve diverse IPA organizations, and represent another significant milestone in Cybear's evolution," said Ed Goldman, M.D., Cybear president and chief executive officer.

Vincent Calamia, M.D., Narrows IPA president, said, "A group our size must continue to look for efficiencies in how we conduct business - communication has been one of those challenges. We look forward to being able to communicate electronically with our colleagues in an environment we can trust is secure, as well as utilizing the many other resources provided by the Cybear technology."

Dr. Goldman added, "Physician groups tell us over and over that they need economical solutions that let them communicate online with their membership. Solutions MD meets that critical need by establishing secure, private networks that allow them to share information within their group while also giving them instant access to the rest of the world."

Narrows IPA will begin installation this week to connect its members to Solutions MD and establish their intranet and Internet service. Services to the remaining organizations will commence in early September.

About Cybear, Inc.

Cybear, Inc. (www.cybear.com) is an information technology company using the Internet and Internet-based applications to improve the efficiency of day-to-day administrative and communications tasks of healthcare providers that interact to manage patient care. Cybear provides access to the Internet and its Solutions product line through its own Internet service provider (ISP) system, delivering productivity applications to physicians, physician organizations, pharmacies, hospitals and consumers while addressing the healthcare industry's critical need for secure and reliable transmission of information.

Solutions MD, the company's flagship product designed for physicians and introduced in March, provides a gateway to the Internet for physicians and others in the medical office and a simple way to create a customized web site for the physician's practice. Providing multiple tools to eliminate the bureaucratic obstacles to practicing efficient medicine, it contains extensive physician, practice, coding, patient care, clinical and compliance solutions. The product provides convenient access to numerous forms to aid the physician in the myriad requirements of patient care, billing, reimbursement, compliance, and human resources and provides a tool to allow the practice to conduct patient satisfaction surveys in accordance with National Committee on Quality Assurance guidelines. Other features include access to patient education handouts, ICD9 code searches, one-page summaries of the doctor's managed care contracts, profiles of insurance plans' coverage of pharmaceuticals, and a listing of searchable clinical trials. Subscriptions to Solutions MD are available online at www.solutionsmd.com or by calling 877.999.3001.

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