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WNS Acquires HealthHelp
Adds Industry-Leading Capability in Health Care Management
HealthHelp provides benefits management across several key specialty
healthcare areas, including Radiology, Cardiology, Oncology, Sleep Care,
Orthopedics, and Pain Management. The company’s approach is based on a
non-denial, collaborative model which includes a peer-to-peer network of
over 100 Medical Doctors and 11 university medical systems. HealthHelp’s
solutions are powered by a proprietary clinical decision support
technology platform called ConsultTM. This scalable platform
enables HealthHelp to process over 70% of its current assessments
automatically, ensuring rapid response to procedure authorization
requests, and automated escalation to nurses and physician specialists
as clinically warranted. The technology embeds predictive analytics
which evaluate and drive health care improvement opportunities. Today,
HealthHelp’s differentiated approach results in the company’s
recommendation being implemented in over 95% of all requests. As a
result, HealthHelp is driving long-term sustainable utilization reform
and behavior change, and generating reduced carrier costs and measurable
ROI for payors. The company has received utilization management
accreditation from URAC and NCQA, and is certified as a
“With the acquisition of HealthHelp, WNS has taken a major step forward
in strengthening our end-to-end Healthcare and Insurance BPM offerings.
WNS plans to leverage HealthHelp’s industry-leading capability in care
management to address the needs of payor, provider and insurance
organizations,” said
“HealthHelp is pleased to join forces with WNS, an established leader in
Business Process Management,” said
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acquisition of HealthHelp, including HealthHelp’s expected revenue
contribution to WNS and accretive benefit to our earnings, our growth
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industries; regulatory, legislative and judicial developments;
increasing competition in the BPM industry; technological innovation;
telecommunications or technology disruptions; our liability arising from
fraud or unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential client and
customer data; our ability to attract and retain clients; negative
public reaction in the US or the
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Source:
WNS (Holdings) Limited
Investors:
David Mackey
Corporate
SVP–Finance & Head of Investor Relations
+1 (201) 942-6261
david.mackey@wns.com
or
Media:
Archana
Raghuram
Head – Corporate Communications
+91 (22) 4095 2397
archana.raghuram@wns.com;
pr@wns.com