FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Eldorado Computing Names Preferred Vendor for Claims Clearinghouse Services
ECI's 130 Healthcare Payer Clients to Benefit from Increased Productivity & Reduced Administrative Costs

Phoenix, Arizona - 7 December, 2004 - Eldorado Computing, Inc. (ECI), a recognized leader in integrated HIPAA compliant software and ASP solutions for health benefits management, announces a three-year agreement with WebMD Business Services. Under the agreement, ECI’s 130 healthcare payer clients will be able to access WebMD Business Services as a preferred vendor of claims clearinghouse solutions.

This relationship will leverage the strengths of ECI HEALTHpac’s automated claims adjudication, benefits administration, contract management, automated workflow and HIPAA compliant tools and enable ECI’s healthcare payer clients a fully integrated turnkey solution to enhance productivity and optimize auto-adjudication.

“Partnering with WebMD Business Services will significantly enhance our service offerings to healthcare payers that use ECI’s HEALTHpac system,” explains Zane Bell, CEO of Eldorado Computing. “WebMD Business Services’ sophisticated, turn-key solution will help speed claims transactions, minimize manual data entry, scanning, and claims editing, as well as reduce the administrative costs associated with EDI and auto-adjudication.”

WebMD Business Services’ EDI-enabling middleware solutions will assist ECI’s clients with:

• EDI Transactions - WebMD Business Services can translate EDI transactions that provide necessary data from non-standard to HIPAA-standard formats and vice-versa.

• Data Validation and Routing - WebMD Business Services can split claim files based on the payer’s specific criteria to intelligently and accurately route claims to the appropriate internal auto-adjudication system.

• Clean Claims - WebMD Business Services’s solutions enable or increase EDI transactions between payers and providers and tools that facilitate "clean claims", resulting in lower administrative costs for payers and improved relationships with providers.

• Access to WebMD Business Services’s extensive network - ECI payers can interface with over 300,000 providers and more than 600 system vendors and clearinghouses for batch and real-time transactions.

About Eldorado Computing, Inc.

Based in Phoenix, Eldorado Computing, Inc. is a recognized leader in providing integrated software and ASP solutions for health benefits management. The company serves hundreds of third-party administrators (TPAs), health plans, employers and self-insured organizations. Together, Eldorado’s customers manage seven million lives and handle 43.2 million claims annually. For more information, call (602) 604-3100.