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Volunteer State Health Plan Selects Sandata for TennCare Choices
Sandata's IntegriCare 2.0 To Deliver Electronic Visit Verification for Home & Community-Based Services
Port Washington, NY and Chattanooga, TN – August 6, 2009: Sandata Technologies, LLC, a leading nationwide provider of information technology solutions to the home healthcare and social services communities, and Volunteer State Health Plan (“VSHP”), a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate, announced an agreement by which VSHP will use Sandata’s IntegriCare 2.0 to manage electronic visit verification of home and community based services for the TennCare Choices program. IntegriCare 2.0 is a jurisdictional solution enabling managed care organizations and government programs to monitor and track home bound patients and contracted home care providers in real time. The IntegriCare solution includes Santrax, Sandata’s patented time and attendance product and the nation’s number one telephone and web-based field management solution. IntegriCare also provides a comprehensive operational home care management solution with scheduling, compliance, billing and payroll functionality. VSHP and its contracted home care agencies will benefit from improved oversight, quality monitoring, and streamlining of administrative and claims costs.
Bert Brodsky, Chairman and CEO of Sandata, said “We are delighted that Volunteer has chosen Sandata to help it improve the quality, accountability and efficiency of the services it provides to home bound patients through the TennCare Choices program. Volunteer is truly visionary in recognizing the value to managed care and government payors of electronic visit verification for home and community based services. We look forward to an enduring relationship with Volunteer.”
Sonya Nelson, President and CEO of VSHP, said “After conducting an extensive selection process, including a thorough examination of the various solutions available for our home bound patients, we found that Sandata had the most comprehensive and best technology. IntegriCare will enable VSHP real time monitoring of our contracting home and community based service providers to ensure our members receive the care they need. Our providers will now utilize leading edge technology to manage staff in the homes and streamline critical administrative functions while enhancing capture of important clinical data that can improve patient care.”
About Sandata Technologies, LLC
Sandata Technologies provides a complete package of information technology solutions, which includes scheduling, time and attendance, billing, payroll, compliance and clinical applications, for the home healthcare and social services communities. This comprehensive information technology offering enables companies and organizations with remote workforces the ability to realize administrative cost savings, streamlined operational procedures, and significantly reduced paperwork burdens. Sandata has over 1,000 customers in 47 states and processes over 80 million telephone calls annually. Sandata services customers through its four data centers located across the country with state-of-the-art redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities. For additional information about Sandata Technologies, please visit: www.sandata.com.
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Santrax (r) operates under U.S. Patent Nos. 5,255,183, 5,646,839, 5,835,575, 5,949,856, and 5,963,912 which are owned by Sandata Technologies, LLC
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