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Nation's largest private practice anesthesia group to implement practice management solution from IDX BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDX Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:IDXC) today announced that in the second quarter of 2005, North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) selected IDX(R) Groupcast(R) to increase operational efficiencies and support their plans for significant expansion. NAPA is the first member of the Anesthesia Business Group (ABG) to avail itself of a master agreement with IDX, announced separately today. NAPA is the nation's largest private practice anesthesia group. Comprised of over three hundred anesthesiologists and one hundred Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, NAPA provides anesthesia services at eighteen hospitals in Maryland, New Hampshire and New York. The practice currently processes more than 500,000 transactions each year, and plans to expand its clinical anesthesia practice to several contiguous states, doubling its size in three to four years. "Groupcast will strengthen our overall business performance while providing the scalability we need to take our organization to the next level," said John L. Adessa, President of NAPA Management Services Corporation. "Anesthesia is a specialty that has demanding and exacting standards for how procedures are tracked, billed and reimbursed. In our extensive search for the right solution, the comprehensive anesthesia practice functionality built into Groupcast made it stand out. In addition, the robust reporting capabilities inherent in Groupcast will facilitate management decision support, enabling NAPA to grow and manage its operation." Through the use of Groupcast's integrated Advanced EDI Management Services, the organization will be able to increase its electronic connectivity with payors, thus increasing overall efficiencies. NAPA also anticipates the ability to provide its patients and physicians with an even higher level of customer service through the use of Groupcast's integrated document control and digital scanning features. "Over the next twenty-four months, NAPA anticipates a 20 - 25 percent increase in billing and collection efficiencies through the use of Groupcast," said Mr. Adessa. "NAPA's implementation of Groupcast will web-enable their system and provide them with automated revenue cycle management tools designed to expedite cashflow," said Stephen Gorman, President and General Manager, IDX Groupcast Operating Unit. "Groupcast will support NAPA's plans for growth, enabling them to increase profitability while continuing to provide superior customer service." About North American Partners in Anesthesia North American Partners in Anesthesia, or NAPA, is the nation's largest private practice anesthesia group. Founded in 1986, NAPA provides anesthesia services at eighteen (18) hospitals in the states of Maryland, New Hampshire and New York. In addition to its hospital based program, NAPA provides anesthesia services at numerous Ambulatory Surgical Centers and independent physician offices. NAPA is comprised of over three hundred (300) anesthesiologists and one hundred (100) Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists. Through its affiliated organizations, NAPA provides Chronic Pain Management Services (North American Partners in Pain Management), Insurance Products and Consultative Services (Practice Security Insurance Company SPC, Ltd. and Practice Security Consulting Services, LLC) and Medical Practice Management and Billing Services (NAPA Management Services Corporation "NMSC"). NMSC provides its clients with superior management and billing services, with results which routinely outpace industry norms. Since its inception, NMSC has grown from a simple back-office billing service to become an industry leading practice management and billing organization, providing services for NAPA and its affiliates as well as non-affiliated clients. NAPA plans to expand its clinical anesthesia practice to several contiguous states as well as expanding its management and billing services to non-anesthesia groups in the near future. About IDX Founded in 1969, IDX Systems Corporation provides information technology solutions to maximize value in the delivery of healthcare, improve the quality of patient service, enhance medical outcomes, and reduce the costs of care. Our systems are deployed to serve approximately 150,000 physicians and are installed at over 3,400 customer sites, including more than 850 group practices and approximately 370 integrated delivery networks servicing more than 500 hospitals. IDX also provides its enterprise clinical software as a subcontractor to BT, Local Service Provider for the United Kingdom National Health Service's National Programme for Information Technology, an initiative to establish electronic patient records for 50 million patients. The IDX web strategy includes browser technology, e-commerce and web-based tools -- built using Internet architecture -- that facilitates access for patients, physicians and care providers to vital health information and data managed by the IDX clinical, administrative, financial, and managed care products. IDX has approximately 2,400 full-time employees. IDX and Groupcast are trademarks or registered trademarks of IDX Investment Corporation. This press release contains forward-looking statements about IDX Systems Corporation that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are uncertainties or difficulties in developing new services and systems, including Groupcast, difficulties in implementing systems, possible deferral, delay or cancellation by customers of computer system or service purchase decisions, possible delay of system installations and service implementations, development by competitors of new or superior technologies, changing economic, political and regulatory influences on the healthcare industry, possible disruptions in the national economy caused by terrorist activities and foreign conflicts, changes in product pricing policies, governmental regulation of IDX's software and operations, the possibility of product-related liabilities, and factors detailed from time to time in IDX's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which important factors are incorporated herein by reference. IDX undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or changes in future operating results, financial condition or business over time. For more information, contact: Kate Cartwright Media Relations - IDX 802.859.6009 Franc Galinanes Director, Communications & Insurance Services NAPA Management Services Corp. 516.945.3047 DATASOURCE: IDX Systems Corporation CONTACT: Kate Cartwright, Media Relations of IDX, +1-802-859-6009, ; or Franc Galinanes, Director, Communications & Insurance Services of NAPA Management Services Corp., +1-516-945-3047 Web site: http://www.idx.com/ http://www.anesthesiabusinessgroup.com/

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