Ecom Hires Bud Brooks as New Director of Sales

Ecom PPO.com, Inc.SM (Ecom) announces the addition of Francis A. (Bud) Brooks III to its sales and marketing team. Brooks joins Ecom as its new Director of Sales.

(PRWEB) August 25, 2006

DALLAS, Texas : Ecom PPO.com, Inc.SM (Ecom) announces the addition of Francis A. (Bud) Brooks III to its sales and marketing team. Brooks joins Ecom as its new Director of Sales.

In this role, Brooks will be responsible for the sales initiatives at Ecom, whose customers and prospects include health plans, TPAs, insurance carriers and employer groups, as well most other kinds of health claims payers.

Brooks has almost 12 years in the healthcare industry. Based in Dallas, Texas, he has a long track record of successful sales and client relationship management with many health insurance payers across the country. Prior to joining Ecom, Brooks spent more than seven years with a national cost containment company as regional sales director for the group health division and then later as the sales director for their workers’ compensation network in Texas, as created in 2005 under Texas House Bill 7.

“I am pleased to join the Ecom management team as the director of sales. Ecom has earned a solid reputation for quality service within the healthcare payer marketplace and I look forward to helping take the company to the next stages in its growth. Ecom’s technology solutions bring payers, providers and networks together to facilitate optimal provider network configurations. This creates greater value for all parties by driving in-network penetration to their highest levels and eliminating most non-network claims, while improving the quality and accessibility of the healthcare delivery system for our clients’ members,” said Brooks.

Brooks has previously worked in the managed healthcare industry with a leading pharmacy benefit management company. Prior to this, Brooks worked for different companies in sales and corporate development roles, all based in Dallas. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University and a Masters in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University.

About Ecom:

Ecom PPO.com, Inc. (Ecom), a Dallas-based company, specializes in PPO advisory services and holds a patent pending on a set of algorithms that are unequalled in their ability to maximize the return to health plans from PPO networks. Ecom has one of the most sophisticated claims portals and one of the largest data repositories of repriced claims data anywhere. Ecom has taken a revolutionary approach to PPO network selection; while most network selections are made based on geography, Ecom evaluates historical claims data to determine the best fit network with maximum coverage. Ecom has a preferred relationship with over 120 of the largest primary PPOs operating in the industry and has long enjoyed the trust and respect of the PPO community. Ecom’s most recent product development, “White Space Elimination,” promises a huge impact on the health insurance services industry as it will virtually eliminate non-network claims.

For more information please contact Erin Edwards at (214) 561-6468.

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