Gateway EDI Enters Workers' Compensation Market Through Strategic Relationship With P2P Link

Market Wire, January, 2005

Gateway EDI, one of the nation's fastest growing health care EDI providers, today announces a new electronic filing capability for workers' compensation claims.

"Work flow management is crucial for medical office billing managers, especially when there are multiple claim types involved," states Gateway EDI's CIO David Cheli. "Gateway EDI's new electronic workers' compensation claims submission offering, which includes transmission of data such as chart and physical therapy notes, streamlines the work flow process in a new efficient way," he says.

Gateway EDI will be collaborating with P2P Link LLC, a Farmington, Connecticut-based company with an expertise in workers' compensation claims.

Like the electronic claims transmission of health claims, submitting workers' compensation claims electronically will improve efficiency and reduce costs. Other benefits include significantly improved payment cycle times and reduction in the repeat handling of bills due to errors, incomplete information, or missing attachments.

"We look forward to rapidly expanding our provider base through our strategic relationship with Gateway EDI," explains Bob Zeccardi, Vice President of Provider and Payer Relations, P2P Link. "Ease of use is a key issue for our provider customers and the ability to 'turn-on' workers' compensation bill submission is dramatically easier through Gateway EDI."

About P2P Link

P2P Link LLC maintains an active and growing list of leading workers' compensation payers who accept electronic claims payments. For more information about P2P Link(SM) products and services visit www.p2plink.com.

About Gateway EDI

Emerging as one of the nation's fastest growing health care EDI providers, Gateway EDI (www.gatewayedi.com), offers simple solutions to complex business electronic connectivity challenges. From standard claims processing and status reporting, to sophisticated new technology to flag rejected claims -- all through HIPAA compliant solutions -- Gateway EDI boasts unusually high performance standards; routinely 98 percent of all customer service calls are answered in person with a 92 percent instant resolution. For the fourth consecutive year, the St. Louis Business Journal named Gateway EDI, a privately held company, one of the region's 20 fastest-growing companies businesses in 2004.

Media Contact: Michelle Llewellyn 800-969-3666 ext 201 MLlewellyn@GatewayEDI.com