PRESS RELEASE

Tampa, Florida, April 26, 2004 ... Healthcare Quality Solutions (HQS) the leader in providing daily management tolls to the home health industry via the Internet is pleased to announce their affiliation with Allied Strategies. Allied Strategies, LLC joined the HQS team to become the first third party billing organization to select HQS suite of products for their clients.

"The ease of use of the HQS suite of products was the deciding factor in our decision making process. With the elimination of errors prior to OASIS transmission to the state, reimbursement issues will dramatically improve for our clients," stated Shawn C. Stipcak, Co-owner of Allied Strategies, LLC.

"Errors associated with OASIS collection typically affect reimbursement from $100-$300 per episode. By utilizing the SmartEdits™ available with the HQS PPS Advantage™ system, we provide a solution to identifying financial weaknesses," commented business partner, Diane S. McKinney of Allied Strategies.

Mike Milvain, HQS CEO adds, "We are pleased to offer web technoloy to the third party billing service of Allied Strategies, LLC. Their main objective is to reduce the burdens associated with claim rejections so the client can focus on patient care. This idea is in line with the mission of HQS. HQS strives to provide the tools that are important so clinicians can concentrate on what is important - patient care."

About HQS: Healthcare Quality Solutions was founded in October, 2002 and is the leading daily PPS decision management tool delivered to the home health industry online daily. HQS offers services to measure a homecare agencies' performance against federal healthcare quality guidelines and against HQS' national database. Additional tools identify clinical service areas in need of improvement. Among the benefits agencies receive from the "On-demand" management services are reimbursement analysis, Identification of key drivers of case mix Manage, "concurrent" adverse event review, and the benchmakr to the 41 government outcomes indicatros as well as lock date verification and compliance.

Today, HQS hosts and integrates more than 130 home care agencies that represents greater than 500 home care branches nationwide with a database of over 2.5 million OASIS assessments. Customers range from small rural home care agencies to large multi-site home care chains across the United States. Healthcare Quality Solutions is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and has offices in Texas, Illinois and Arizona. For more information call 800.850.0018 or visits www.HQSonline.com.

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