June 01, 2007

Government Works Inc. (GWI) signed an agreement with US Government’s Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide eligibility, entitlement and enrollment information to Medicare and Prescription Drug related Plans

SOUTHBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS - Government Works, Inc. (GWI) has agreed with the HHS and CMS to provide eligibility, entitlement and enrollment information to Medicare Advantage Plans (MA), Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans (MAPD) and Prescription Drug Plans (PDP).

These state-of-the-art IT services will service over 30 million Medicare Members who select MA’s, MAPD’s and PDP’s to service them by providing web enabled real-time access to data. This will cover 700 CMS contracting health plans and prescription drug plans that will submit enrollment data records to CMS data center and enroll eligible members in the 50 states.

This novel GWI system comprising several modules will provide customer relationship management (CRM), billing and risk adjustment, in addition to member and payment reconciliations that relate reimbursements to appropriate diagnoses, eliminating mistakes and incorrect fraudulent payments, improving quality of service while lowering costs of these government funded Medicare and prescription drug programs. Another new feature is the health risk assessment module that helps in identifying members with chronic conditions that can use the GWI disease management module.

According to Krishna Ika, GWI Senior Vice-President, Healthcare Sales, adding value is what it is all about by using IT in CRM, billing, risk adjustment, health risk assessment and disease management that will enable these plans to increase sales and better manage their member’s health by receiving enhanced payments on the one hand and on the other improve the overall quality of care and reduce overall costs. This is a win-win-win situation for the Medicare members, the health plans and the CMS that funds it all.

About Government Works, Inc. (GWI)

Government Works, Inc. (GWI), based in Southborough, Massachusetts is a provider of IT software solutions and consulting services and a leader in web-based healthcare management.

GWI has provided products and services to various departments of the U.S. Federal Government. Some of these are the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Others of importance are the Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, National Guard Bureau and the White House Communications Agency. The products and services for the U.S. private sector include health care solutions, program and project management and technical services that encompass engineering, support and vendor management. A complete list of these activities is found on the GWI web site.

GWI Enterprise System is the core flagship product that deals with a full service, comprehensive system to automate the key factors in a healthcare managed cycle. This web based comprehensive infrastructure is useful for healthcare organizations, payers like insurance companies and third party administrators. Detailed information on this system is also provided on the GWI web site.

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January 2007:

Government Works Inc. is engaged with EDS in the innovative Defense Support Office (DSO) program that includes the DSO Call Center. This maintains and updates the Defense Enrollment Eligibility System (DEERS), the single, central, Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise-wide person repository to protect personal identities as well as provide strong authentication for access to government assets.

This program will replace/assist the legacy Real-Time Automated Personnel Identification System and the existing Common Access Card System, all using the same data base of multi-million people regarding the current and past relationships with the DoD. The projects in this DSO program are expected to assist the Enterprise Beneficiary Portal, currently under development, in dealing with all questions regarding DoD benefits for service members and others. The DSO program and its various projects will also reflect policy changes, new legislation and changes in DoD benefit eligibility requirements as these unfold in the future.

December 2006:

Government Works Inc. signs a multi year contract for technical support for Go Army Educational Initiative (GoArmyEd) as part of a team headed by IBM. A wide range of services for the Army Continuing Education System (ACES) operations in the Army’s civilian voluntary education program is anticipated by adding new and advanced technological functionality to its overall educational system in order to create a robust virtual one stop shop educational environment.

While this program has many detailed specifications and applications to active duty Soldiers, family members and Department of Army civilians, it has other beneficiaries, such as Soldiers in Army Guard Reserve Status and US Army Reserve (USAR). Use of these new and advanced Army developments as a prototype for other Military Services, such as the Air Force, Navy and Marines is also foreseen as a benefit of this contract.

While the contract calls for the design, implementation, management, control, operation, maintenance and test to enhance the infrastructure for on line training and education, it also specifies quality levels and quality control plans.

December 2006:

Government Works Inc. and the Defense Mission Systems Division of Northrop Grumman have concluded a contract for supply of IT services in relation to US Air Force (AF) intelligence, Command and Control (C2) and C2 Community needs. These center on data analysis, modeling and simulation exercises related to database, communication expertise and computer security.

In these research and development activities, skills relating to collection, processing, storage, fusion, integration and transmission of real time and stored information are involved.

November 2006:

Government Works Inc. is currently starting to work on VistA Contractor Support (VCS) with EDS in providing application maintenance services. This ten year billion dollar contract will use specialized skills, business and health care practice experience and new technologies to modernize computer code, add new functionalities and increase flexibility in the underlying VistA and other Veterans Affairs (VA) packages and programs. Core is provision of timely, effective and efficient IT services and technical support.

This work was previously performed with EDS from 2003 to 2006 under the Vista Contractor and Rehosting Support program.

Objectives include cost-effective state-of-the-art IT solutions with technical and management support to match, both at VA facilities and contractor sites. Emerging technologies are to be utilized in remaining current throughout this fast changing technology period.

Specific project areas are services common to clinical and administrative applications involving Patient Service and many middleware services, blood bank system, clinical logistics office support, computerized patient medical records, fee based veteran services, federal health information exchange (FHIE) VA/DoD support, project support services, patient financial services system (PFSS), pharmacy, scheduling, application development security processes, VistA imaging and Vista maintenance.

June 2006:

Government Works Inc. teams with SI International to jointly win the expansion of SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) business model for future Engineering, Financial and Program Management contractor support services with a focus on implementing cost-effective and integrated business practices to better support the U. S. Navy. SeaPort Enhanced made electronic procurement of Engineering, Technical and Programmatic support services at NAVSEA a reality. It is providing expertise in IT services in a wide range of functional areas, including Software development, various facets of Engineering and IT applications.

Government Works is providing support to SI International in various Engineering and IT solutions..

April 2006:

Government Works Inc. has been teaming with Lockheed Martin in its long term Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Information Technology Services (HITS) project to upgrade, consolidate and support HUD’s nationwide information system. Its all encompassing activities include the acquisition, installation, operation and maintenance of the HIIPS system, including procurement of all computing hardware and software. With the exception of application software development, HIIPS replaced HUD’s prior ADP and telecommunication services.

The program has a long list of activities covering provision of computer, telecommunications and networking hardware including work stations and output devices, systems and DBMS software, documentation, training and user support, with a two phase execution of development and operations. It has 23 core and 7 non-core functions. Some of the outstanding core features are database management, TV/Video conferencing, wireless and mobile communications and the ever important disaster recovery, electronic data interchange (EDI) and Security while some of the non-core ones, such as emergency provision of supplies and services and IT accessibility have assumed greater focus as time passes.