Inovalon Selected to Provide Quality Measurement Analytics

BOWIE, Md., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovalon, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, today announced that Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) has selected Inovalon's HEDIS Advantage™ to provide clinical and quality outcomes measurement and reporting services through its NCQA Certified HEDIS Software^SM solution service offering. Inovalon is working with HCSC to strengthen the delivery of affordable quality healthcare to its more than 13 million members across Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Inovalon's HEDIS Advantage solution provides health plans with NCQA-certified administrative data analytics and coordinated hybrid medical record abstraction, as well as reporting capabilities to satisfy Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), NCQA, and state-specific quality program specifications and requirements. Inovalon's Quality Spectrum Insights™ (QSI) engine, the analytics engine behind the HEDIS Advantage application, is the nation's most widely used Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) solution and continues to set the industry standard for clinical quality analysis and reporting. Today, Inovalon's systems support the needs of approximately 60% of the nation's covered lives seeking outsourced quality analysis and reporting support.

"The growing demands to deliver accurate quality measurement and reporting in today's healthcare environment is placing even greater pressure on health plans' internal resources," said Troy Dinkel, M.D., Chief Product Officer of Inovalon. "We are very pleased to work with Health Care Service Corporation to ensure a continued focus on improving the health status within the communities HCSC supports throughout the United States."

About Inovalon, Inc.

Inovalon, Inc. is a leading technology-enabled healthcare solutions provider focused on the importance of healthcare data and its ability to drive dramatic, objective improvement in clinical and quality outcomes, care management and financial performance throughout the healthcare community. Proprietary healthcare datasets, aggregation and analysis capabilities, combined with a national infrastructure of leading-edge technology, clinical prowess and deep human resources, empower Inovalon's advanced generation of healthcare assessment and improvement through highly informed solutions. Driven by data, Inovalon uniquely identifies gaps in care, quality, data integrity, and financial performance ­-- while also bringing to bear the resources to resolve them. This differentiating combination provides a powerful capability suite, touching more than 540,000 physicians, 220,000 clinical facilities, and more than 120 million Americans, driving high‐value impact, improving the quality and economics for health plans, hospitals, physicians, patients, and researchers. Please visit www.inovalon.com for more information.

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