ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Burgess, an innovator in healthcare payment operations for over 20 years, today announced that Burgess Group's Source Application has earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST.
“Receiving HITRUST CSF Certification for Burgess SourceTM affirms our company’s ongoing commitment to deliver secure cloud-based payment accountability solutions to our clients,” says Greg Burgess, Founder and Chief Product Officer at Burgess. “Burgess Source significantly reduces the costly inefficiencies in first-pass payment inaccuracies that affect providers and payers today, and this certification is another step in our mission of achieving real change in our industry.”
HITRUST CSF Certified status demonstrates that Burgess Group's Source Application has met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Burgess among the top tier of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST CSF helps organizations address these challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.
“HITRUST has been working with the industry to ensure the appropriate information protection requirements are met when sensitive information is accessed or stored in a cloud environment,” said Ken Vander Wal, Chief Compliance Officer, HITRUST. “We are pleased that Burgess has taken the steps necessary to achieve HITRUST CSF Certified status, and we expect their customers to have confidence in this designation.”
Burgess’ latest innovation, Burgess Source, introduces a new workflow solution to address healthcare payment inaccuracies, compliance, and rework. Designed from the ground up as a sole-source platform to natively manage and deliver claims editing, pricing, analytics, transaction audits, and bi-weekly regulatory data updates, Burgess Source provides health plans a next generation approach to simultaneously improve both their bottom line and provider relations.
For more information on Burgess Source and to discover how its unified approach can streamline payment operations in your organization, visit burgessgroup.com.
About Burgess
After 20 years, Burgess continues to design and build innovative and scalable solutions for healthcare payment operations. With headquarters in Alexandria, Va., and an office in West Hartford, Conn., the company serves many of the nation’s top health plans, including multiple BCBS, national, and regional payers.