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April 03, 2008
VisionTree® Partners with InstaMed® to Provide Online Payment For Patients and Healthcare Organizations
SAN DIEGO — April 4, 2008 —
VisionTree®,
leading provider of interactive, web-based patient-centered health
record management and provider communication systems, has formed a
strategic partnership with InstaMed®,
the leading real-time
clearinghouse and payment processor for healthcare.
"InstaMed is excited to leverage
VisionTree’s impressive, web-based technology and the value it
brings to managing patients in a paperless environment." said
Bill Marvin, President of InstaMed.
VisionTree customers will be able to
utilize InstaMed’s patent pending Platform and Network to handle
real-time eligibility and claims, and electronic payments from
patients and payers. InstaMed integrates the healthcare and financial
networks by delivering seamless connectivity between Healthcare
Providers, Billing Services, Vendors, Health Plans, Payers, Banks and
other financial entities.
Martin Pellinat, CEO of VisionTree
Software, said "The VisionTree Optimal Care™ (VTOC) platform
is used by over 70 leading academic and community sites around the
country for web-based patient communication and data management. With
the ability for patients or a physician’s office to process
payments online, we have expanded the VTOC patient portal to not only
include the patient health record, e-communication and disease
management, but also include the ability for patients to make
healthcare payments.
About InstaMed®
InstaMed
is a real-time clearinghouse and payment processor for the healthcare
industry utilizing the patent pending InstaMed Platform and Network.
InstaMed’s mission is to transform the healthcare payment process
for healthcare Providers, Payers, Banks and Patients so their payment
experience is simple, convenient, reliable and secure. InstaMed
currently supports the healthcare payment processing needs of over
400 hospital and clinic locations; practice management vendors and
billing services representing over 50,000 providers; and hundreds of
healthcare payers of all sizes. InstaMed is registered with
Visa and MasterCard as an ISO/MSP/PSP of U.S. Bank. InstaMed is
Payment Card Industry Level One certified and fully accredited by the
Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission.
InstaMed is also a member of the C.O.R.E. Initiative (Committee on
Operating Rules for Information Exchange) and WEDI (Workgroup for
Electronic Data Interchange). Visit InstaMed on the web at
www.instamed.com.
Click here to learn more about VisionTree Optimal Care.
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