HealthDataInsights Names Andrea Benko President and CEO

HealthDataInsights, Inc. (HDI), a leading provider of medical claims overpayment identification and recoupment services, announced today the appointment of Andrea Benko as the company's President and CEO.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (PRWEB) November 24, 2006 -- HealthDataInsights, Inc. (HDI), a leading provider of medical claims overpayment identification and recoupment services, announced today the appointment of Andrea Benko as the company's President and CEO, effective immediately. Ms. Benko is a co-founder of HDI, and has served as the President of HDI since its inception. Victor M.G. Chaltiel, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of HDI since its inception, will retain the Chairman's role and will continue to play an active role in the company.

Mr. Chaltiel said: "We are tremendously excited to have Andrea assume the CEO position, in addition to retaining her role as President of HDI. Andrea possesses the energy, leadership skills and vision to drive the company's continued development, and has been instrumental in positioning the company for explosive growth. We believe that her creativity and entrepreneurial spirit will continue to add exceptional value for HDI and its shareholders."
    
Ms. Benko has more than 20 years experience in the health care industry. Prior to co-founding HealthDataInsights, Ms. Benko served during 1998 and 1999, first as consultant, then as Vice President, Mergers, Acquisitions & Business Development of publicly held Total Renal Care, now Davita (NYSE:DVA), the nation's second largest provider of renal dialysis services with annual revenues then in excess of $1 billion.

Prior to Total Renal Care, she founded Total Physician Services, Inc. a physician practice management company focused on HIV, and served as its President and CEO for two years. Ms. Benko served for five years (1990 - 1994) in various capacities at Total Pharmaceutical Care, Inc., a leading publicly held provider of home healthcare and infusion therapy services, which was acquired in 1993 by Abbey and is now known as Apria Health Care Group (NYSE; AHG). Prior to joining TPC, Ms. Benko spent nine years in the clinical laboratory industry.

Ms. Benko holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing with honors, Sigma Theta Tau, from Wayne State University and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

About HealthDataInsights
Applying its sophisticated technology platform developed over the course of more than a decade, HealthDataInsights works with healthcare payors to ensure that providers have been reimbursed accurately. HDI is engaged by public and private healthcare payors, as well as third party administrators and self-insured corporations, to provide comprehensive claims integrity services, which include analyzing 100% of paid medical claims and identifying and recovering improper payments resulting from error, fraud or abuse.

In March 2005, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded HealthDataInsights its first Recovery Audit contract under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, pursuant to which the company will identify and facilitate the recovery of any overpayment and underpayments of fee-for-service Medicare claims filed in the State of Florida through March 2008. Earlier this year, HDI was selected by the CMS as the review contractor for the Medicaid Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) Program. The purpose of the PERM program is to produce a national level error rate for the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance programs.    

HDI's investors include Redhills Ventures LLC (www.redhillsventures.com), GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com), and Ticonderoga Capital (www.ticcap.com). The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada with operations in Newport Beach, CA and Orlando, FL. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.healthdatainsights.com.

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