Press Release
- Date:
- Monday, September 24, 2001
- Contact:
- David Peikin
- Phone:
- (301) 918-0818
- Email:
- G1@schwartz-pr.com
Beech Street Corporation, Nation's Largest Independent
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), Selects Group 1 Software
for Data Accuracy and Enrichment
Group 1's Address Data Quality and Geographic Intelligence Helps Beech Street Better Serve Its Clients' 16 Million Members
Lanham, MD – Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF), a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM)-enabling software solutions, today announced that Beech Street Corporation of Lake Forest, California has implemented its customer data quality solutions. Beech Street provides cost-effective delivery of quality healthcare services to 16 million Americans through its affiliations with over 320,000 providers, 50,000 specialty providers and 3,300 hospitals. Beech Street is using Group 1's CODE-1 Plus and Geographic Coding Plus to ensure data quality and enhance its client service and support.
CODE-1 Plus is ensuring that Beech Street continues to communicate to its providers accurately and in a timely manner by standardizing and validating every element of an address. CODE-1 Plus is also the cornerstone of a central application used throughout Beech Street's enterprise that provides address data quality for its network of providers. Beech Street is utilizing Group 1's Geographic Coding Plus to append highly accurate census geography to provider addresses. This geographic intelligence is used to refer consumers to providers within a certain distance of an address, thereby presenting them an optimum range of local health care choices.
"Data integrity is an operational imperative for Beech Street Corporation and our customers," said Bill Hale, President and CEO of Beech Street Corporation. "The powerful combination of address data quality and geographic intelligence enables us to offer our customers reliable and accurate information."
"We're pleased to provide address data quality and geographic intelligence solutions to a leading health care management company such as Beech Street," said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1. "Beech Street's utilization of CODE-1 Plus and Geographic Coding Plus demonstrates the value of our solutions for the many businesses that can profit from enhanced data quality as a means to better customer service and greater satisfaction." About Group 1 Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) is a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM)-enabling software solutions for data quality, marketing automation, customer relationship communications and direct marketing applications. Group 1's software systems and services enable 2,500 customers worldwide to market smarter by helping them find, reach and keep customers. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Lanham, Maryland, Group 1's solutions are utilized by leaders in the financial services, banking, retail, telecommunications, utilities, e-commerce, and insurance industries. The company's customer base includes such recognized names as AT&T, Charles Schwab, Entergy, GEICO, L.L. Bean, MCI WorldCom, Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo. For more information about Group 1, visit the company's Web site at http://www.g1.com
About Beech Street Corporation Beech Street Corporation is based in Lake Forest, CA and offers a complete line of PPO Network Services and URAC accredited Healthcare Management services including Prior Authorization Review, Concurrent Stay Review, Case Management, Maternity Options Management and Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse Services. The organization currently contracts with more than 3,300 hospitals, 50,000 specialty care facilities and more than 320,000 providers, serving more than 16 million individuals throughout the United States. For more information, contact Beech Street Corporation at (800) 877-1666 or visit the company's web site at http://www.beechstreet.com.