Royal Health Care Aligns with MD On-Line for Electronic Claims Submissions

PARSIPPANY, N.J., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- MD On-Line, Inc., a proven leader in enabling interoperable EDI transactions between healthcare payers and providers, today announced that it has teamed with Royal Health Care, LLC (Royal) and Neighborhood Health Providers to enable its clients and providers to begin submitting claims electronically.  Royal is a leading health care technology and services company that provides third party administrative services including claims processing, medical management, call center support and more to health plans and other payer organizations.  The initiative will begin with Neighborhood Health Providers (NHP) whose providers will be allowed to submit claims electronically through MD On-Line for free.  

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MD On-Line has created a co-branded web portal linking from the Neighborhood Health Providers website and will actively market to the NHP paper-submitting providers in order to convert them to electronic filing. As the first of the Royal clients to join the effort, Neighborhood Health Providers will join more than thirty major carriers who have a co-branded relationship with MD On-Line and who have identified the Company as their preferred vendor for converting paper providers to electronic submitters.  

Under this new arrangement, NHP'S physicians will be able to submit claims to NHP electronically for free.  In addition, special incentives will be provided to enable them to submit claims electronically to the more than 2,000 payers who are a part of the MD On-Line network.  "We are excited to be able to offer our providers the time and cost-savings benefits of electronic claims submission," said Steven Bory, President and CEO.  "Improving the business of healthcare gives our providers more time to focus on the practice of healthcare and that is a win/win for them and their patients."

"Every new payer who encourages the electronic submission of claims brings us closer to our goal of helping to turn the tremendous cost and time savings potential into reality for both payers and providers," said Bill Bartzak, President and CEO of MD On-Line.  "We are delighted that we will now be able to count NHP in that group."

About Royal Health Care, LLC

Royal Health Care, LLC is headquartered in New York, NY with offices located on Long Island, NY; in Charlotte, NC; and in Albuquerque, NM. Royal offers a broad portfolio of products and services including parameter-driven transaction applications, data center outsourcing services, business process outsourcing services and consulting services which are tailored to the changing needs of healthcare payers. For additional information on Royal's products and services, please visit its website at www.royalhc.com, or call Royal's Business Development team at 877-248-6626.

About MD On-Line

MD On-Line, Inc. is a leading provider of electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions that facilitate the critical connection between doctors and payers. Its offerings enable electronic data capture and entry, and claim and transactional data submission to payers. Co-branded and endorsed by 30 major insurers and increasing its presence in providers' offices of all sizes, MD On-Line is transacting the business of healthcare, helping to make the healthcare system significantly more cost-effective by eradicating inefficiencies. In addition to claims processing, MD On-Line offers real-time services for eligibility verification, referrals, claim status inquiries, and electronic remittance advice (ERAs). Its "all-payer" EDI solutions encompass a network of more than 1,800 payer organizations and are used by more than 35,000 healthcare providers nationwide. For additional information, visit www.mdon-line.com.

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