Emdeon, MZIHC enter services agreement

MZI HealthCare, LLC (MZIHC), a leading provider of health plan administration software, announced today that it has entered into a services agreement with Emdeon, a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions. The agreement offers Emdeon Payment Integrity Solutions and Emdeon Payment Management Solutions to users of EZ-CAP® (www.ez-cap.com), MZIHC's flagship product, to help them fight fraud, waste and abuse and achieve cost savings.    

EZ-CAP customers will be able to take advantage of the Emdeon Payment Integrity Solutions, which offer solutions that span the entire revenue and payment cycle, from pre-adjudication to post-payment, to help prevent fraud, waste and abuse. These solutions utilize advanced analytics and investigative detection capabilities, as well as audit and recovery services, in an effort to empower payers of all sizes to intelligently automate processes that previously required a significant investment in human resources and IT infrastructure.

"EZ-CAP's agreement with Emdeon is particularly advantageous for our clients because healthcare fraud, waste and abuse is an ongoing problem that continues to grow," said NC Murthy, CEO of MZIHC. "In fact, industry forecasts show that billions of dollars are lost annually in the United States to healthcare fraud, waste and abuse. Our ability to offer EZ-CAP clients the advantages of using both Emdeon Payment Integrity Solutions and Emdeon Payment Management Solutions will help enable them to address these issues and control costs."

EZ-CAP customers also will be able to utilize Emdeon Payment Management Solutions, which provide improved efficiencies for paper and electronic-based payment and remittance documents, as well as the capability to drive provider adoption of electronic payment and remittance. Emdeon's integrated web-based tools facilitate the distribution of checks and electronic remittance advices (ERAs) to physicians and explanations of benefits (EOBs) to patients. EZ-CAP customers also will be able to utilize Emdeon's electronic funds transfers (EFTs) and both paper and electronic-based payment distribution and network communications.