MED3OOO to Provide Billing and ASP Services to Physician Groups In the New Haven, CT Area

PITTSBURGH - MED3OOO Health Solutions, Northeast, recently announced that it has finalized an agreement with several physician groups previously serviced by St. Raphael Health System's Medical Service Organization, "Physician Support Services," in which MED3OOO will provide billing services and serve as an Application Service Provider (ASP) on the +Medic Vision platform, to approximately 50 end users.

This new agreement brings the total number of end users in ASP arrangements with MED3OOO to over 200. St. Raphael has discontinued its MSO operations in connection with this agreement.

Located in the Greater New Haven, Connecticut area, the physician groups included in the arrangement are: the Orthopaedic Group, Internal Medicine of East Haven, GI & Internal Medicine of Orange, and Chapel Street Pediatrics. In addition, MED3OOO will also provide billing services for certain physician services provided in St. Raphael Hospital's emergency room.

"We are excited about the opportunity to expand our operations into the New Haven area, and to create an environment which ensures the delivery of sustainable, high quality healthcare to the communities served by these physicians," said Richard Schickler, President and COO of MED3OOO Health Solutions, Northeast.

David W. Benfer, President and CEO of St. Raphael Health System commented, "As part of our focus on redirecting our attention to our core business, we have found it necessary to remove the hospital from the administrative and operational tasks involved in managing physician groups. We believe that the affiliation with MED3OOO will bring efficiencies and profitability to those groups with whom they have contracted, and that we will also see fiscal improvement on our end."

"Working with MED3OOO offers physicians the advantages of a network built specifically to service physicians groups. This transaction will enable us to focus on our core business -- taking care of our patients -- and will leave the billing systems functions to MED3OOO," he continued.

MED3OOO is one of the country's largest privately held practice improvement companies, whose goal is to enhance its leadership position in physician practice operations, occupational health, clinical research, application services and ancillary management services.