GTESS Board of Directors Appoints Deborah M. Gage President and Chief Executive Officer.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available RICHARDSON, Texas--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 10, 2002 The Board of Directors of GTESS Corporation today announced that it has appointed Deborah M. Gage as President and Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Gage will also hold a seat on the GTESS board. Her appointment will take effect immediately. In announcing this appointment, GTESS Co-Chairman Guy B. Snowden said, "This is an important step in moving GTESS forward. Deb is a highly qualified and experienced leader in the healthcare technology industry, with equal success in major corporations and entrepreneurial ventures. I am confident that with her leadership, GTESS will achieve its significant potential as a major provider of outsourced solutions to healthcare payors and provider networks." Ms. Gage is a veteran of business start-ups, most recently as President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of RosettaMed, Inc., a Houston-based start-up providing physician-patient connectivity. Prior to this she was Founder, President and CEO of Solution Point, a business she founded to provide marketing information systems to healthcare technology companies. Ms. Gage has also held high-level management positions at CareStream Corporation (a division of FoxMeyer) and The MEDSTAT MEDSTAT Medical Status Group. She earned a Masters in Business Administration degree from the Michigan Business School and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. . The GTESS Board also thanked John E. Taylor, Jr., the Company's former interim President and CEO for his significant efforts to advance the Company's position in the healthcare industry. Mr. Taylor is the Managing Director of SnowMark, a Vero Beach Vero Beach (vēr`o), city (1990 pop. 17,350), seat of Indian River co., E Fla., on Indian River (a lagoon and part of the Intracoastal Waterway); founded c.1888, inc. 1919. , Florida-based venture capital firm and a shareholder in GTESS Corporation. GTESS Corporation offers significant operating efficiencies to the healthcare industry through a range of outsourced solutions that streamline electronic claims processing electronic claims processing Electronic billing The electronic–ie, by modem–submission of a bill to third-party payers, for physician services rendered . We specialize spe·cial·ize v. 1. To limit one's profession to a particular specialty or subject area for study, research, or treatment. 2. To adapt to a particular function or environment. in providing full front-end services, from paper or electronic claims receipt and validation to data archival and retrieval. By receiving "clean claims" in HIPAA-compliant formats, GTESS clients achieve higher auto-adjudication rates, maintain peak-level processing capacity and eliminate their backlog -- all with guaranteed turnaround time (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. and data accuracy. For more information, please visit www.gtess.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.091002/bb10 |
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