VisionShare and Acucare Health Strategies Announce Strategic Partnership

The alliance is designed to help Home Health and Hospice agencies improve operational efficiencies while significantly reducing administrative costs associated with data communications connections to Medicare claims processing and direct data entry (DDE) systems.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) April 15, 2006 -- VisionShare, the leading provider of Internet connectivity solutions for Medicare related healthcare transactions, and Acucare Health Strategies, a Center of Excellence for Home Health and Hospice organizations, announced a strategic partnership today. The alliance is designed to help Home Health and Hospice agencies improve operational efficiencies while significantly reducing administrative costs associated with data communications connections to Medicare claims processing and direct data entry (DDE) systems.

For VisionShare, the partnership with Acucare enables the introduction of a high-speed, low-cost, Internet connectivity solution to the Home Health and Hospice industry. “Thanks to a market focused on keeping healthcare costs in-check, demand for our Secure Exchange Software grew at a very impressive rate this past year," says Jim O’Reilly, Executive Vice President of VisionShare. "Our software saves customers at least 40% of what they are currently spending on their data exchange connectivity with Medicare and other payers. Acucare is the perfect partner for us as they have a team of experienced Home Health and Hospice business strategists offering management, billing, and consulting services and Medicare recovery programs.”

“We provide Home Health and Hospice clients with strategic direction in planning and implementing innovative, cost-savings business solutions such as VisionShare. This partnership will help our clients realize that with Acucare they manage compliance and profitability because neither is optional”, says Peter Chaalan, Acucare’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

About VisionShare, Inc.
Based in Minneapolis, MN, VisionShare is a leading provider of high-speed, low-cost, Internet data communication services for healthcare organizations. The company’s Secure Exchange Software™ uses military-grade encryption and authentication methods to meet the escalating regulatory demands on the industry. VisionShare software and services create safe, high-speed connections over the Internet replacing leased lines and dial-up connections in order to speed up the transfer of critical data, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduce risk.

About Acucare Health Strategies, Inc.

Based in Reston, VA, Acucare is a leading national healthcare consulting firm and a Center of Excellence for Home Health and Hospice that provides clients with solutions and strategies that ensure superb patient care, regulatory and clinical compliance, and profitability, giving clients a distinct competitive advantage. Acucare Health Strategies’ approach is to focus on understanding clients' needs first and then matching solutions to meet those needs. Acucare Health Strategies delivers results through vision, leadership, efficiency and compliance while it equips clients to be market leaders in the rapidly changing and highly competitive healthcare industry.

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