Health Information Partnership for Tennessee Winds Down Operations

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Health Information Partnership for Tennessee (HIP TN), an organization created three years ago by providers, payers, consumers and other stakeholders to assist Tennessee in creating a statewide health information exchange (HIE), is planning to wind down operations.

The HIP TN Board voted on June 15 to begin wind down activities after meeting with state officials.

“Given the evolution of HIE across the country, HIP TN’s board of directors decided the best step was to allow the state to operate from a clean slate,” said Dr. Reginald Coopwood, chairman of HIP TN’s board. “We hope the work conducted thus far has been valuable and will provide insight if others plan to implement state-wide HIE in the future.”

HIP TN formed in 2009 to create a statewide health information exchange that would serve as a network of networks for Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) in Tennessee. The state contracted with HIP TN to provide the infrastructure for the exchange. While HIP TN will no longer be responsible for implementing an intrastate HIE in Tennessee, HIE efforts across the state will continue. Specifically, three (RHIOs) within Tennessee are playing a role in health information exchange. The RHIOs are expected to continue securely sharing health information.

“Hundreds of volunteers representing stakeholders from across the healthcare spectrum have contributed countless hours to identifying the healthcare information that needs to be exchanged and developing policies and a framework to exchange that information,” Dr. Coopwood continued. “We’re grateful for their hard work and dedication to HIE.”

There are three RHIOs in Tennessee: MidSouth eHealth Alliance (MSeHA), Middle Tennessee eHealth Connect (MTeHC) and East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN).

“The members of the HIP TN Board, and the organizations they represent, believe that secure health information exchange—in the form of electronic health records and other information—will benefit the quality of health care in Tennessee. The board’s vision for a health information exchange network in Tennessee remains, and we hope that vision can be realized down the road,” said Dr. Coopwood.

For more information, go to www.hiptn.org.

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American Specialty Health Opens Dallas Operations Center

SAN DIEGO, July 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading health services company American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) has opened a new 50,000 square foot operations center in Southlake, TX, a suburb of Dallas. The new location will allow ASH to expand its operational services, while also offering redundancy capabilities to ensure uninterrupted operations in the event of any emergency that might impact the company's Southern California headquarters and operations center.

Heading up the new Dallas operations is Kirk Hartman, who recently joined ASH as associate vice president, Specialty Health Operations. Hartman has been instrumental in helping to prepare the new office for day-to-day operations supporting ASH business. Previously, he was a director of call center operations for a large radiology management company where he oversaw more than 300 employees across three locations in Texas and New York.

"ASH has seen growing interest in our programs and we are investing appropriate resources to support new capabilities in this area," said ASH CEO and chairman George DeVries. "Our new location will afford us more opportunities to grow and better serve our customers."

The organization is looking to fill more than 100 positions at their new office.

About ASH

American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) is a national health services company that provides specialty health care management programs, fitness and exercise programs, and total population health and prevention/wellness programs to health plans, insurance carriers, employer groups and trust funds.

Based in San Diego, ASH has more than 900 employees and serves nearly 30 million members. ASH subsidiaries include American Specialty Health Insurance Company, American Specialty Health Group, Inc. and Healthyroads, Inc. Products offered through ASH and its subsidiaries include the Healthyroads Wellness(R) Program, the Silver&Fit(R) Program, the ExerciseRewardsTM Program and others. For more information about ASH programs, visit ASHCompanies.com or call (800) 848-3555. Follow ASH on Twitter @ASHCompaniesor @Healthyroads and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Healthyroads.

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TMG Health Names New Senior Director of Cross-Functional Operations

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TMG Health, the leading national provider of expert solutions for government-sponsored health plans, announces the appointment of Roger Nawrocki as Senior Director of Cross-Functional Operations.  Based in the company's National Operations Center in Dunmore, Pa., Nawrocki is responsible for assisting the Operations management team in achieving more superior performance, cost efficiency, compliance and customer satisfaction.

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"I am excited to join TMG Health. The company has an excellent track record in serving its clients in the Medicare Advantage, Part D and Managed Medicaid market," Nawrocki said. "By refining the collaborative delivery processes and initiatives between clients, operations and all of the Business Units in the TMG Health enterprise, we can enhance our business administration capabilities to build upon the government-focused solutions, best practices and expertise that have been the cornerstone of our success."

Joseph Rampone, Senior Vice President of Operations, expressed his confidence in Nawrocki. "I am pleased to welcome Roger to the TMG Health team. Roger has extensive operational and management experience, so I am confident that he will augment our leadership efforts to further hone our functional processes, technologies, reporting capabilities and internal controls," Rampone stated.

Nawrocki brings more than 20 years of health industry experience to TMG Health. His expertise in the healthcare market includes managing operations administration and related technical functions and personnel. His experience spans Membership/Enrollment, Billing, Claims, Customer Service and Business Support Services, including project and vendor management, process improvement and system lifecycle support.

Nawrocki was most recently employed as the Senior Director of Operations and Technical Support at CareFirst Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland where he led National and Large Group business processes and the development of system and operational capabilities.

Prior to his work at CareFirst, Nawrocki served as Assistant Vice President of Operations Support at NYLCare Health and, prior to that, spent more than a decade in Operations at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey as Director of Federal Employee Programs, Corporate Accounts and Medicare Part A.

Nawrocki holds a bachelor's degree in Management Science from Kean University, Union, N.J.

About TMG Health
TMG Health is the leading national provider of expert solutions for Government-Sponsored health plans. TMG Health offers an innovative suite of technology-enabled services to a growing number of health plans, provider-sponsored plans, and self-sponsored employers in the Medicare Advantage, Part D, and Medicaid Managed Care markets.

A subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), the largest customer-owned health insurer in the United States, TMG Health has consistently been recognized as the number one provider of BPO services to the government health plan market by the Brown Wilson Group's well-regarded guide, "The Black Book of Outsourcing."

Visit www.tmghealth.com to learn more about TMG Health.

Contact:

Kim Rollman
TMG Health
Marketing Coordinator
Phone:  570-903-5198
krollman@tmghealth.com

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TMG Health Names New Senior Director of Cross-Functional Operations

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TMG Health, the leading national provider of expert solutions for government-sponsored health plans, announces the appointment of Roger Nawrocki as Senior Director of Cross-Functional Operations.  Based in the company's National Operations Center in Dunmore, Pa., Nawrocki is responsible for assisting the Operations management team in achieving more superior performance, cost efficiency, compliance and customer satisfaction.

(Logo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110830/PH59742LOGO )

"I am excited to join TMG Health. The company has an excellent track record in serving its clients in the Medicare Advantage, Part D and Managed Medicaid market," Nawrocki said. "By refining the collaborative delivery processes and initiatives between clients, operations and all of the Business Units in the TMG Health enterprise, we can enhance our business administration capabilities to build upon the government-focused solutions, best practices and expertise that have been the cornerstone of our success."

Joseph Rampone, Senior Vice President of Operations, expressed his confidence in Nawrocki. "I am pleased to welcome Roger to the TMG Health team. Roger has extensive operational and management experience, so I am confident that he will augment our leadership efforts to further hone our functional processes, technologies, reporting capabilities and internal controls," Rampone stated.

Nawrocki brings more than 20 years of health industry experience to TMG Health. His expertise in the healthcare market includes managing operations administration and related technical functions and personnel. His experience spans Membership/Enrollment, Billing, Claims, Customer Service and Business Support Services, including project and vendor management, process improvement and system lifecycle support.

Nawrocki was most recently employed as the Senior Director of Operations and Technical Support at CareFirst Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland where he led National and Large Group business processes and the development of system and operational capabilities.

Prior to his work at CareFirst, Nawrocki served as Assistant Vice President of Operations Support at NYLCare Health and, prior to that, spent more than a decade in Operations at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey as Director of Federal Employee Programs, Corporate Accounts and Medicare Part A.

Nawrocki holds a bachelor's degree in Management Science from Kean University, Union, N.J.

About TMG Health
TMG Health is the leading national provider of expert solutions for Government-Sponsored health plans. TMG Health offers an innovative suite of technology-enabled services to a growing number of health plans, provider-sponsored plans, and self-sponsored employers in the Medicare Advantage, Part D, and Medicaid Managed Care markets.

A subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), the largest customer-owned health insurer in the United States, TMG Health has consistently been recognized as the number one provider of BPO services to the government health plan market by the Brown Wilson Group's well-regarded guide, "The Black Book of Outsourcing."

Visit www.tmghealth.com to learn more about TMG Health.

Contact:

Kim Rollman
TMG Health
Marketing Coordinator
Phone:  570-903-5198
krollman@tmghealth.com

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