Ravenswood Medical Professional Group, S.C. Selects PLEXIS Healthcare Systems' Claims Manager after Extensive Search

Ashland, Oregon -- September 24, 2002 -- http://www.plexisweb.com">PLEXIS Healthcare Systems, Inc. announced today that Ravenswood Medical Professional Group, S.C., located in Chicago, IL, has purchased its core claims processing software, PLEXIS Claims Manager. The PLEXIS' suite of products offers payers, benefit administrators and health plans the functionality to facilitate accurate and automatic claims adjudication, referral authorizations, benefit administration, and contract management, while meeting all present HIPAA compliance requirements.

Ravenswood Medical Professional Group is a private medical group that has been providing high quality primary care and specialty services to residents on the North Side of Chicago for over 30 years. The organization and its core group of primary care physicians accept managed care risk in a medical group model format, which includes over 100 specialist physicians in a wide variety of outpatient and inpatient locations.

"We have been working steadily to improve our information systems infrastructure in business and clinical operations over the past few years," said Alan Glick, Administrator at Ravenswood Medical Professional Group. "Moving from a manual to an automated system that could provide comprehensive referral, utilization management, claims, reporting and ERISA compliance functionality was a key initiative for our group. After investigating over 10 systems and completing in-house demonstrations and reference checks on the final candidates, we found that PLEXIS most comprehensively met our functional, technical, cost and organizational strength requirements. We look forward to a successful, long-term relationship with PLEXIS," Mr. Glick continued.

PLEXIS Healthcare Systems' CEO and President, Jorge Yant stated, "We are pleased to be an integral part of Ravenswood's information technology upgrade. They are a very well managed medical group and the extensive search they conducted for a claims processing partner exemplifies this. We also look forward to a long and productive relationship with Ravenswood."

About PLEXIS Healthcare Systems
PLEXIS Healthcare Systems, Inc., a healthcare technology company based in Ashland, Oregon, has been developing high-end claims processing software for the Windows platform since 1996. PLEXIS Healthcare Systems provides advanced technology tools that enable healthcare organizations to streamline and automate their claims payment and medical case management requirements. For more information, please call toll free (877) 475-3947 or visit http://www.plexisweb.com">www.plexisweb.com.