mPay Gateway Adds Pacific Healthcare Strategies to Reseller Network

mPay Gateway, a Minneapolis, MN company specializing in point of care patient payments, announced today that Pacific Healthcare Strategies (PHCS) of Newport Beach, CA is mPay Gateway's newest software reseller. PHCS will focus its sales and distribution efforts on healthcare organizations in the Western US. PHCS is an organization specializing in assisting health care providers to increase their profitability and productivity. PHCS's team of medical experts works with clients to promote the use of technology to improve practice profitability.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) April 2, 2008 -- mPay Gateway, a Minneapolis, MN company specializing in point of care patient payments, announced today that Pacific Healthcare Strategies (PHCS) of Newport Beach, CA is mPay Gateway's newest software reseller. PHCS will focus its sales and distribution efforts on healthcare organizations in the Western U.S.

PHCS is an organization specializing in assisting health care providers to increase their profitability and productivity. PHCS's team of medical experts works with clients to promote the use of technology to improve practice profitability.

"Because Pacific Healthcare Strategies focuses on helping practices improve their bottom line, we see them as an excellent fit for our software offerings," said John Wallace, mPay Gateway's senior vice president of sales and marketing. "They share our goal of providing healthcare professionals with tools to improve cash flow and reduce bad debt exposure."

mPay Gateway delivers web-based software that facilitates point of care electronic patient payments to health care providers. The company's unique approach enables providers to obtain patient payments while the patient is still at their facility, thus reducing bad debt exposure and the need for post-service billing and collection.

"mPay Gateway's technology and services align perfectly with our core beliefs at Pacific Healthcare Strategies," said Jim Skladany, president of PCHS. "We are passionate about providing automation tools and proven strategies that help healthcare providers maximize their efficiencies and revenues. mPay Gateway offers a great tool to help caregivers improve the financial health of their organization."

The average physician practice in the US. today writes off fifty cents of every dollar billed to patients after the patient leaves the office due to inefficient collection processes and confusing insurance plans. mPay Gateway's product simplifies the patient-provider encounter and enables the provider to collect from the patient when the services are rendered.

mPay Gateway provides a virtual POS terminal for accepting credit and debit cards for patient co-payments and other known charges. Additionally it allows the provider to run an authorization amount based on a patient liability estimate produced off of the system. Much like the rental car and hotel environment, where the customer's card is not charged until after the customer leaves, the mPay Gateway system allows the provider to hold the authorization until the provider has a final remittance advice from the third-party payer.

mPay Gateway's integrated and comprehensive management software is distributed to physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers through financial services companies and healthcare information software and support providers . As consumers continue to see higher healthcare costs and complexity, mPay Gateway software provides healthcare professionals the tools to make health care consumerism work just like other retail transactions.

mPay Gateway was formed in January 2004 by former executives of eBenX (a pioneer in technology to support transactions between health plan sponsors and payers) to develop financial technology solutions addressing the complex payment requirements unique to the health care environment. For more information please visit www.mpaygateway.com.

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