WASHINGTON D.C./BOCA RATON, FL, Nov. 4.2005 – LexisNexis®, a leading provider of legal, news, business information and risk management services, announced today that corporate insurer members of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA), as well as law enforcement and regulatory agencies, will benefit from advanced information and data access technology provided by LexisNexis, as a public service to the health care insurance industry. The advanced information and data access technology is called Special Investigation Resource and Intelligence System (SIRIS), which is a robust, easy-to-use computerized information-sharing system used to track and identify potentially fraudulent health care cases. The system went live yesterday.

“LexisNexis is dedicated to serving the health care industry and consumers by creating solutions to combat health care fraud,” said John Benson, vice president of health care solutions for LexisNexis risk management business unit. “That is why we are proud to have this strategic alliance with the NHCAA to create industry-leading solutions for our customers and corporate insurer members.”

NHCAA SIRIS demonstrations will be held Nov. 8-9, 2005, at the NHCAA 2005 Annual Training Conference held in San Diego California. The conference is sponsored by the NHCAA Institute for Health Care Fraud Prevention whose goal is to protect the public interest by providing unparalleled professional education and training to private and public sector persons responsible for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of health care fraud. For those unable to attend, LexisNexis and NHCAA will provide training on-line. LexisNexis is a long-standing Premier Sponsor of the NHCAA Institute.

“I can't think of a better example of an alliance in action between the public and private sectors in combating health care fraud . . . it's right out of our Mission Statement,” stated Louis Saccoccio, executive director, NHCAA.

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