Data Strategies, Inc. and Gateway EDI sign Strategic Vendor Agreement

POWAY CALIFORNIA February 14, 2008:

Data Strategies, Inc. and Gateway EDI announce that they have signed a Strategic Vendor Agreement.  With this agreement, the two companies are dedicated to working together to integrate the EDI functionality of the leading EDI company in the nation into elligence – Data Strategies' powerful flagship product.

“The integration of Gateway EDI with elligence is a great addition to our product and our team.  The internet-driven nature of their offering complements elligence and their world-class reporting and service enhance our product as well.” says Les Jacobs, President of Data Strategies, Inc.

Data Strategies, Inc. is located in San Diego County, CA.  elligence is the third generation of the company’s software to manage the administrative side of the practice.  Data Strategies’ clients are in over 40 states; many of whom have used their products continuously for over 20 years.

Using an intuitive, powerful interface, elligence facilitates billing, scheduling, reporting, patient correspondence, document management and collections.  elligence integrates with Gateway EDI for electronic claims, remittance and statements, Emdeon for real-time eligibility checking, Microsoft Word and Excel, Intuit’s QuickBooks and JulySoft’s automated patient reminder system -  ReminderPro.

Gateway EDI headquarters are located in St. Louis, Missouri.  Gateway EDI is one of the nation's fastest growing health care EDI providers offering simple solutions to complex electronic connectivity challenges. Gateway EDI is the premier electronic data interchange (EDI) provider serving today's health care industry.

Since 1983, Gateway EDI has been dedicated to offering accurate and timely processing of transactions between providers and payers. Gateway EDI serves more than 10,000 offices in 50 states and Guam; transmits claims for more than 40,000 providers and over 3,000 payers.

Gateway EDI customers using their tools, have lowered their average overall error rate to only 7 percent.   Ninety eight percent of their customer service calls are answered directly by a real person.

To find out more about:

elligence - contact Data Strategies, Inc. or see:  www.elligence.net
Gateway EDI - see: http://www.gatewayedi.com/