May 1st, 2009

Phoenix, AZ - Healthcare Networks of America has a new partner affiliation with MED Group. This strategic alliance will enable Home Medical Equipment (HME) and Physical Therapy providers to openly enroll in the HNA Network.

The MED Group is a Group Purchasing, Business Solutions and Referral Management Network that helps Home Medical Equipment (HME) Providers lower their costs, increase their revenues, and sustain a competitive advantage in their marketplace. MED Group is known for their ultra exclusive partnerships with top end healthcare companies (such as Healthcare Networks of America) making them a leader with the HME community.

Though this partnership, Healthcare Networks of America will build its newly opened DME Panel and strengthen its negotiating power on behalf of all its providers.

The MED Group serves its Home Care Customers (Members, Suppliers and Referral Sources) through a unique model that delivers value for each.

• MED Members are market-leading Home Medical Equipment (HME) Providers that consistently deliver quality patient care through clinical and business based best practices. Through MED smart purchasing economic models, Members make cost effective purchasing choices for products available through MED Preferred Supplier agreements. MED also helps Members improve efficiencies in education and training, reimbursement, accreditation, certification, technology and other operational areas – to help maintain their status as market leaders.
• MED provides Supply Partners access to these market-leading Members to impact revenue and improve supplier efficiencies in sales, marketing and ordering/operations.
• MED Referral Partners gain access to MED National Network of HME Providers, using GOMED™EDGE technology to process referral activity through the web.

MED’s HME Member network includes 365 HME Providers covering 1000+ lovations. Its national headquarters are located in Texas. For more information about MED: www.medgroup.com

Healthcare Networks of America was formed to organize healthcare providers into national networks. The result of this combination was the negotiation of higher reimbursement, fee- for-service contracts with insurance carriers, PPO’s, and other health plan payers. Since 1993, HNA successfully built a provider organization for over 18,000 healthcare professionals in all 50 states. HNA recently opened its panel to DME Providers. Our multi-specialty network currently services 6,800 payers and 24.5 million patients nationwide.

For further information contact: Healthcare Networks of America at: ProviderRelations@hna-net.com, Sherry Krueger, Executive Director, 877-315-3338 or visit our website at www.hna-net.com