QUOVADX Expands Relationship with BJC Healthcare to Standardize Insurance Verification Process

The Integration Solutions division (ISD) of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), a global, market-leading integration and interoperability software business serving private and public healthcare and healthcare IT vendor organizations, today announced the successful first wave of implementation of its Cash Accelerator Suite at BJC Healthcare, one of the largest non-profit health-care organizations in the United States. BJC selected the Cash Accelerator Suite and related Professional Services from ISD for the foundation of their front-end insurance verification standardization initiatives, to be implemented in phases in 12 of their hospital facilities. To date, two of the twelve hospitals are now in production. The QUOVADX® Cash Accelerator Suite, leverages BJC’s existing Cloverleaf® solution, the industry’s leading integration technology, to automate and verify patient eligibility, while expediting the patient revenue cycle across the BJC organization. In addition to processing as many as four million insurance verification transactions annually through the Cash Accelerator product, the QUOVADX Professional Services team implemented complex revenue-cycle integration for BJC, actively integrating insurance verification transactions from five disparate registration and patient accounting systems across the organization. "Our expanded relationship with BJC is an example of how Quovadx continues to interpret and respond to the evolving needs of our core Cloverleaf customer base – helping these organizations meet the growing and changing business and industry landscape of healthcare integration and system interoperability,” said Mike Epplen, vice president of product management, Integration Solutions division (ISD) of Quovadx. "We are pleased that BJC has selected the Cash Accelerator Suite and QUOVADX Professional Services team to help the organization achieve greater financial interoperability and streamline patient intake across the network.” The Cash Accelerator Suite provides a single interface through which the full set of real-time HIPAA transactions can be processed, verified, stored and retrieved. The types of transactions processed through this system include claim submission, claim status and referral processing, as well as credit checks or address verifications. The Cash Accelerator Suite will collect, translate and disseminate the data sent from BJC’s many disparate payer systems electronically and automatically, thereby accelerating connectivity to its payers and HIS vendors, and providing insurance verification and eligibility prior to treatment. QUOVADX® Cash Accelerator Suite, including INSURENET® Hub and INSURENET® Direct modules, provide HIPAA compliant, flexible access and real-time verification to more than 2,300 health plans in the U.S. through direct payer connections and four clearinghouse connections. Robust data quality tools provide for bi-directional, integrated processing to speed and simplify the financial transaction process for healthcare providers, healthcare technology vendors, payers and public health organizations, saving valuable resources and increasing the speed at which claims can be processed and paid. About BJC Healthcare BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health-care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and mid-Missouri regions. With net revenue of $2.6 billion, BJC serves urban, suburban and rural communities and includes 13 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice. About The Integration Solutions Division (ISD) of Quovadx The Integration Solutions division (ISD) of Quovadx provides proven enterprise integration and enabling solutions for private and public healthcare organizations, healthcare information technology vendors and government entities. ISD’s clinical, financial and HIT software infrastructure are powered by award-winning Cloverleaf® technology and, coupled with domain-specific service expertise, are designed to increase interoperability, improve business process efficiency and leverage existing technology systems. Cloverleaf® Integration Suite, the most widely-adopted healthcare integration product on the market, has thousands of implementation sites worldwide, with up to 5,800 hospitals in the U.S. – which represents 33% of all U.S. hospitals and 40 percent of all large IDNs (Integrated Delivery Networks) in the U. S. In addition, Cloverleaf solutions have significant share of medium and large hospital systems in Germany and the Netherlands and a growing presence in Canada, the U.K., Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and the Middle East. For more information, please visit www.isd-quovadx.com. QUOVADX, CLOVERLEAF, INSURENET and the QUOVADX logo are registered trademarks or service marks of Quovadx, Inc. in the U.S. and/or select foreign countries. The absence of a trademark from this list does not constitute a waiver of Quovadx Inc.’s intellectual property rights concerning that trademark. 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