Conifer Joins ACHE’s Exclusive Premier Corporate Partner Program

FRISCO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Conifer Health Solutions, a leader in business process solutions for healthcare providers, today announced it has become a Premier Corporate Partner of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

“Healthcare, as we all know, is an ever-changing environment. That’s why ACHE developed our respected partner program to engage our industry’s thought leaders in educating and informing healthcare executives about advancements in hospital management and the latest healthcare trends,” said Dr. Thomas C. Dolan, president and CEO, ACHE. “We believe Conifer is a key provider of healthcare business process solutions that brings value-added benefits to the educational, professional networking and career development mission of ACHE.”

This partnership will enable Conifer to build relationships with healthcare leaders to better understand the challenges they face, while sharing with them the latest trends and lessons learned in patient communications and healthcare finance -- particularly about revenue cycle management and hospital compliance.

“Through our partnership with ACHE, we’ll be able to help healthcare executives take advantage of groundbreaking approaches to improving their financial performance and patient satisfaction simultaneously,” said Stephen Mooney, president of Revenue Cycle Solutions at Conifer Health Solutions. “ACHE is one of the most reputable healthcare organizations in the industry, and this partnership allows us to offer our unique perspective of aligning a hospital’s mission with its ability to enhance financial margins to advance patient, physician, and community satisfaction.”

For more information on ACHE’s Premier Corporate Partner program, visit: http://www.ache.org/corppartner_programdesc.cfm.

About Conifer

Conifer Health Solutions provides Revenue Cycle Management and Patient Communications services to more than 100 hospitals and health systems nationwide. Conifer utilizes proprietary workflows and technology to offer comprehensive Revenue Cycle Solutions ranging from patient pre-registration to Health Information Management and Clinical Revenue Cycle services to the processing of governmental, managed care and self-pay claims. The company also provides best-in-class Patient Communications services that include physician referrals, patient education, marketing services and pre-admission clinical appropriateness reviews.

Born from healthcare, Conifer Health Solutions is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and employs more than 2,500 people. For more information, call 1-877-CONIFER or visit the company’s Web site at www.coniferhealth.com.

Conifer Health Solutions, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC). Some of the statements in this release may constitute forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on our current expectations and could be affected by numerous factors and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, certain of which are discussed in Tenet’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2009, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and periodic reports on Form 8-K. Do not rely on any forward-looking statement, as we cannot predict or control many of the factors that ultimately may affect our ability to achieve the results estimated. We make no promise to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of changes in underlying factors, new information, future events or otherwise.

CONTACT:

Conifer Health Solutions
John Hoffmann, 972-335-6104
or
Sophia Stoller, 972-335-6134

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