Jewish Home Lifecare Turns to Emerging Health Information Technology for Revenue Cycle Solutions.

Claims Transaction Management Services to Improve Medicaid Eligibility Verification and Speed Claims Processing

YONKERS, N.Y. -- Emerging Health Information Technology, a provider of healthcare professional services and IT-based solutions, announced that it has been awarded the contract

to provide revenue cycle management solutions to Jewish Home Lifecare, one of the oldest and largest non-profit, long-term care and rehabilitation systems in New York State. Jewish Home Lifecare will take advantage of TREKS, Emerging Health's TRansaction Exchange Knowledge-based Services to perform eligibility verification, service authorization, claims scrubbing and validation, and payment analysis.

"Fast and accurate insurance verification and claims management are critical to achieving our revenue cycle objectives," said Thomas Gilmartin, chief administrative officer, Jewish Home Lifecare. "We are confident that Emerging Health's technology will provide solutions that will increase operational efficiency and help us improve the service we provide our clients."

Emerging Health will assist Jewish Home in confirming Medicaid eligibility for its clients through TREKS Verify[TM]. TREKS Verify creates an electronic exchange that allows Jewish Home to transmit files of their active patient demographics to the TREKS Central Knowledge Hub for verification against the Medicaid Management Information System database. TREKS Verify electronically delivers back to Jewish Home a response file with the Medicaid eligibility status for each of its patients. In April 2007, TREKS was one of the first healthcare technologies to receive CAQH CORE Phase 1 Certification for adhering to the set of industry guidelines that streamline eligibility verification and promote health plan-provider interoperability.

"We are delighted to be working with Jewish Home Lifecare to help them improve their revenue cycle, eliminate the risk of claims rejection, ensure appropriate payer reimbursement and ultimately, reduce administrative costs and increase cash flow" said Jack Wolf, president and chief executive officer, Emerging Health.

Jewish Home has also contracted with Emerging Health to receive, validate, store, and submit 837I (institutional) electronic claim files through its TREKS SmartClaims[TM] application. TREKS SmartClaims provides a fully integrated claims processing engine to facilitate claims editing, reconciliation and reporting. All claims are routed through the TREKS Central Knowledge Hub where they are stored in the TREKS transaction repository. Once stored in the repository, the TREKS SmartTrack[TM] application will be used to track and reconcile 837 claims, automatically query insurance payors for status (276) and resolution (277) of open claims, and record adjudication information for 835 electronic advice remittance transactions. Consultants from Emerging Health will also provide Jewish Home with continual quality improvement methodologies through ongoing analysis of trends in denials/errors.

About Emerging Health

Emerging Health Information Technology is a healthcare professional services company that provides IT-based solutions and services to hospitals, long term care facilities, integrated delivery networks and large ambulatory practices that improve the quality of patient care, maximize financial performance. The company works with leading healthcare systems providers to implement clinical and revenue cycle solutions. The firm provides project management, IT resource planning, systems assessment, application development as well as application outsourcing and infrastructure management services. Emerging Health is a subsidiary of Montefiore Medical Center. For more information, visit www.emerginghealthIT.com

About Jewish Home Lifecare

Jewish Home Lifecare has been meeting the needs of New York's elders for 160 years. Jewish Home Lifecare provides a network of care that includes skilled nursing, rehabilitation, Alzheimer's special care communities, respite care, senior housing and community programs such as home care and adult day care along with many other specialized services. It has locations in the Bronx, Manhattan and Sarah Neuman in Westchester; it also serves clients where they live using innovative technology such as the award-winning telehealth monitoring program. Best practice programs are offered in fall management, wound care, pain management, mental health and wellness. Formerly known as The Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare System, the not-for-profit has recently changed its name to Jewish Home Lifecare to better reflect the services it provides. For more information, visit their website at www.Jewishhome.org.