June 18, 2012

Anesthesia Business Consultants’ (ABC) dedication to the complex and intricate specialty of anesthesia and pain management requires continued commitment to technology and collaboration with the technology leaders in the industry. ABC and Picis are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to leverage the combined strengths of technology and operations to all facets of the anesthesia community.

Tony Mira, President and CEO of ABC, remarks, “Anesthesiologists, along with the hospitals and ASCs they serve, continually evaluate their technology partners and how to best utilize the value they contain. By the joint efforts of ABC and Picis, we enable our mutual customers with a streamlined process for billing and bring the confidence of a combined effort to the ever-increasing pressures extended by payers, patients, and regulatory bodies.”

ABC is the nation’s largest billing and practice management company in the specialty field of anesthesia and pain management and distinguishes itself by providing optimal business tools to strengthen business processes and enhance cash flow—all while keeping pace with constant changes in the health care environment. It is not enough to adopt the latest technology, ABC strives to form the best partnerships, carefully testing new systems to ensure their compatibility with our renowned OneSourceAnesthesia platform, and working with leading-edge software providers.

“Anesthesiologists never operate in a vacuum and this partnership allows those providers to take advantage of the increased knowledge and united platform of both ABC and Picis. While ABC focuses on representing the practices of anesthesia and pain management communities, Picis extends the focus to perioperative information system platforms used by anesthesiologists within the hospitals and ASCs they serve,” states Bryan Sullivan, Vice President of Clinical Technologies at ABC. “The knowledge and expertise Picis brings to our team reaffirms our understanding of the full spectrum of anesthesia care from a technology and practice management perspective.”

About Picis

Picis, a subsidiary of OptumInsight—part of Optum, a leading health services business, is a global provider of innovative information solutions that enable rapid and sustained delivery of clinical documentation, financial and operational results in the emergency departments, surgical suites and intensive care units of the hospital. Picis offers the most advanced suite of integrated products focused on these life-critical areas of the hospital where the patients are the most vulnerable, the care process is the most complex and an increasing majority of hospital costs and potential revenue are concentrated. Headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Picis has licensed systems for use at more than 2000 hospitals in 19 countries. For more information about Picis, visit www.picis.com.