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Adaptis signs Fifth Strategic Partner in less than a Year

April 3, 2006

Seattle, WA – Adaptis, a leading single source for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions and services for health payers, today announced that it has partnered with Practice Management Alternatives, LLC (PMA) and its principal, Derek Jansen, PhD, MPH, CCP, to provide expertise in the areas of compliance, practice management, billing and coding, and healthcare auditing. Representing the fifth strategic partnership in less than a year for Adaptis, this new alliance and the others poise the company for rapid growth by enabling it to bring one of the industry’s broadest BPO service offerings to the underserved small- to mid-sized health payer market. Adaptis continues to focus on its core competencies of BPO administration, seamless project oversight management, and consulting, while partnering with best-of-breed providers to expand its suite of services, today adding comprehensive assessment and consultation in the area of compliance.

Senior Vice President and Chief Business Development Officer Stan Glassman explained, “As compliance demands continue to intensify in both number and complexity for health plans, we believe this new partnership with Dr. Jansen and PMA will fill a critical growing need for Adaptis clients.” Glassman added, “This move also aligns perfectly with our strategy to maintain a strategic pace of rapid expansion and we will continue to thoughtfully select strategic partners that offer what our health payer customers ask for in value-add services.”

“This partnership is an ideal match,” said Dr. Jansen of PMA. “Like Adaptis, we possess deep expertise with the managed care marketplace and the needs of health payers in dealing with this market. I’m committed to providing assistance and training to healthcare payers to achieve regulatory compliance while delivering a positive return on investment.”

About Adaptis

Adaptis is a comprehensive source of business process outsourcing solutions focused on health payors with up to 500,000 lives. Proven service performance and a client-centric Account Management approach underlie their administrative, medical management and decision support services. Adaptis is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with a regional operations center in Yakima, Washington and through its majority-owned subsidiary, Tēla Sourcing Inc., an ISO 9001:2000 certified international facility in Pune, India.

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About Practice Management Alternatives, LLC and Dr. Derek Jansen

Practice Management Alternatives is an independent healthcare compliance auditing company that has worked in 50 states and Puerto Rico consulting with health plans, primary care centers, community mental health centers, regional hospital groups and individual practitioners regarding practice management, accreditation preparation, corporate compliance and documentation, coding and billing for clinical services.

As the founder of Practice Management Alternatives, Dr. Jansen provides expertise in the areas of compliance, practice management, billing and coding and healthcare auditing. His client list includes health plans, state Medicaid agencies, hospitals, provider groups, professional trade associations and community health centers in both the primary care and mental health fields. Dr. Jansen has presented at a variety of national and regional conferences and has been an instructor of graduate level courses on related subjects. In addition, he has authored several books and publications whose topics include documentation, billing and coding. Dr. Jansen is Certified Compliance Professional (CCP) by the Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Compliance Institute and has a sub-specialty in forensic medical record review. For more information, please visit http://www.pmallp.org.

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