NEA and GHN-Online Form Strategic Relationship; Relationship Delivers Powerful Online Electronic Claim & Electronic Attachment Solutions to Healthcare Industry.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2003 National Electronic Attachment, Inc. (NEA NEA abbr. 1. National Education Association 2. National Endowment for the Arts NEA (US) n abbr (= National Education Association) → Verband für das Erziehungswesen ) and GHN-Online announced today that they will co-market online claims and electronic medical attachments between their respective health plan and provider clients. GHN-Online and NEA recently completed a clearinghouse exchange agreement, enabling healthcare providers and health plans to electronically transmit attachments to NEA for processing through GHN-Online's all-payer clearinghouse. NEA's FastAttach(TM) enables medical offices to transmit attachments via the Internet, to NEA's electronic repository where health plans can view and process them. "NEA is very excited to have been selected by GHN-Online. This effort will support GHN-Online's strong commitment to continually expand its online transactions and improve service to providers and health plans," stated Tom Hughes, 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 NEA. "We look forward to working with NEA. This agreement will enhance both organizations' connectivity-reach and range of services, enabling our customers to electronically exchange medical claims and attachments," said Azadeh Farahmand, President of GHN-Online. "This agreement is another step in our continuous effort to deliver tools and solutions to streamline the revenue and payment cycle processes between providers and payers." Medical claim attachments may include treatment authorizations, certificates of medical necessity, narratives, worker's compensation documents including first reports of injury and ER records, managed care carve out Carve out Usually occurs when a company decides to IPO one of their subsidiaries or divisions. The company usually only offers a minority share to the equity market. Also known as equity carve out. calculations and supporting documentation, detail itemized statement of charges, referrals, lab reports, or any other documentation required by a payer to adjudicate adjudicate (  jōō´dikāt´),v a health care claim. Attachments can also be exchanged between providers as necessary to meet patient care requirements. This will help providers submit more of their claims electronically, accelerate claim processing, and eliminate the need to duplicate DUPLICATE. The double of anything. 2. It is usually applied to agreements, letters, receipts, and the like, when two originals are made of either of them. Each copy has the same effect. and mail attachments. GHN-Online and NEA anticipate this offering will help payers increase electronic claim volume, reduce in-bound mailroom mail·room n. A room in which ingoing and outgoing mail is handled for a company or other organization. expenses, and eliminate the time and expense normally required to handle, process, retain, and dispose of dis·pose v. dis·posed, dis·pos·ing, dis·pos·es v.tr. 1. To place or set in a particular order; arrange. 2. attachments. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, NEA offers systems designed to make the process of insurance submissions and processing as easy as possible - for the patient, the provider office, and the insurance payer. NEA is the acknowledged leader in Electronic HealthCare Attachments for the dental and medical industry, with thousands of providers in 49 states. See www.NEA-FAST.com. GHN-Online, Inc., a national all-payer clearinghouse, based in Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. , is an e-commerce enterprise-class healthcare transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. hub. Using GHN-Online's network and web-based technology, providers can send claims for processing, correct claims rejections online, take administrative advantage of the industry's first payer/provider claims repository, receive payment acknowledgements, and use other real-time transaction services. For more information, please contact sales@ghnonline.com. |
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