Ohio State Medical Association Partners with Heartland Payment Systems® to Help Its Members with Payment Solutions
New Partnership Delivers Best-in-Class Patient Payment Management Solutions to Ohio’s Medical Community
PRINCETON, NJ — January 25, 2011 — The Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA) is partnering with Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY), one of the nation’s largest payments processors, to provide its members with access to a comprehensive suite of payments solutions expressly created for healthcare practices.
As OSMA’s newest partner, Heartland offers member healthcare providers with best-in-class card processing, gift card marketing, payroll and check management services that can help streamline operations and minimize costs. Heartland also helps practice owners and managers maximize their cash flow by minimizing delayed or unpaid patient payments with ConfirmPaySM. A real-time, web-based eligibility verification and payment solution, ConfirmPay is powered by TransEngenTM.
Representing 20,000 physicians, residents, medical students and practice managers, OSMA is a state medical association dedicated to improving the practice of medicine and promoting the medical profession in Ohio. Together, Heartland and OSMA are working to enhance operations at all participating points of care in Ohio by improving practice management support.
“Our partnership with Heartland provides our members with tools to help reduce costs, improve efficiency and centralize administrative duties at the point of care,” said Dave Owens, OSMA Sr. Director of Membership and Business Development. “Heartland’s payments solutions enable physicians to focus on the needs of their patients by managing payments and financial services in a way that is simple and efficient.”
Chad Preuss, senior affiliate relations manager at Heartland, added, “As a new healthcare model unfolds, it is critical that medical practice managers have access to the most current payment processing tools. Heartland is committed to offering the most up-to-date technology and some of the most advanced healthcare payments solutions in the nation.”
For more information about Heartland’s healthcare solutions, visit HeartlandPaymentSystems.com/Healthcare.
About Heartland Payment Systems
Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY), the 5th largest payments processor in the United States, delivers credit/debit/prepaid card processing, payroll, check management and payments solutions to more than 250,000 business locations nationwide. A FORTUNE 1000 company, Heartland is the founding supporter of The Merchant Bill of Rights, a public advocacy initiative that educates merchants about fair credit and debit card processing practices. For more information, please visit HeartlandPaymentSystems.com, MerchantBillOfRights.org, CostOfABurger.com and E3secure.com.
About OSMA
The Ohio State Medical Association is a statewide association representing 20,000 Ohio physicians, residents, medical students and practice managers. It is dedicated to improving the practice of medicine for physicians, their staff and patients, by advocating their position, saving them time and money and promoting the medical profession. The OSMA is affiliated with the American Medical Association on the national level and county medical societies on the local level. Visit OSMA’s website at at www.osma.org. Follow the OSMA on Twitter at http://twitter.com/OhioMedicine.
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