North Kansas City Hospital Selects Phoenix Health Systems for Revenue Cycle System Design and Implementation Services

Dallas, TX – June 2, 2006 – Phoenix Health Systems, Inc., a leading provider of consulting services to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has been chosen by North Kansas City Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri for assistance in developing a system implementation work plan for a new Patient Accounting information system. The work plan will include a "Future State Operating Model" design, integrated test plan and system activation implementation plan.

In today's market, healthcare information technology is rapidly changing and growing in complexity. This environment requires experienced professionals and quality leadership to enable organizational change and demonstrate results. Phoenix Health Systems believes that organizations must move beyond the fragmented "silo" approach to revenue cycle technology implementation so common in healthcare to a more "mature" approach designed to address the complexity of each component of the revenue cycle continuum of services.  The Phoenix approach not only addresses the increasing interdependence of those services but also continuously improves the complex infrastructure that supports them.

Using our "Revenue Cycle System Integration" approach, Phoenix Health Systems will provide the necessary oversight and direction to assist North Kansas City Hospital in developing plans for the effective integration of leading revenue cycle processes and technologies.

"We are tremendously excited to be selected by North Kansas City Hospital to assist them with their revenue cycle system implementation initiative," said Darin K. LeGrange, President and CEO of Phoenix Health Systems. "Our single focus in the healthcare industry is to add meaningful, objective value to our clients and ensure their satisfaction through collaboration with Phoenix. We recognize both the privilege and the requirement to provide successful leadership and to perform a thorough future state assessment to assist North Kansas City Hospital in ensuring its patient accounting information systems are designed and implemented to maximize system functionality in order to achieve leading practice results."

About North Kansas City Hospital

North Kansas City Hospital is a not-for-profit organization committed to creating and maintaining an environment where exceptional quality and service are achieved and recognized. North Kansas City Hospital is a superbly-equipped, regional medical center with nearly 550 physicians representing over 45 medical specialties.

About Phoenix Health Systems

Headquartered in Montgomery Village, MD, with corporate offices in Dallas, TX and Honolulu, HI, Phoenix Health Systems is a national provider of innovative IT outsourcing and consulting solutions to healthcare organizations. Our services are divided into two service lines – strategic consulting and outsourcing. Outsourcing services include comprehensive or partial IT outsourcing and revenue cycle outsourcing.  Our strategic consulting service portfolio includes: Leadership Services, Diagnostic Services, Strategic Services, Contracting Services, Implementation / Transformation Services, and Quality Review Services. For additional information, please contact Chris Madeira at (301) 240-1500, or visit www.phoenixhealth.com.