GTESS, a healthcare claim transaction technology provider, today announced that it was named to the Titan Fast 50 at the Metroplex Technology Business Council’s (MTBC) 2006 Tech Titans Gala.

The MTBC Titan Fast 50 award recognizes the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area based on percentage revenue growth over five years. To qualify, a Titan Fast 50 company must use proprietary technology in their business solutions. GTESS was also named a Titan Fast 50 Company in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

The awards were presented at the August 18 annual dinner and gala honoring outstanding technology businesses, individuals and education initiatives. GTESS President and CEO Deborah M. Gage said, “We are honored to once again be recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the Metroplex and we look forward to continued growth as more healthcare payers recognize the value of adopting technology to improve claims processing accuracy and reduce dependencies on error-prone offshore operations.”

As a 2006 Titan Fast 50 Company, GTESS is an automatic entrant into the “Deloitte Technology Fast 50”, a statewide competition conducted by Deloitte Touche. The 50 state winners then advance to “Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 in North America” ranking. GTESS was named a Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Company and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Company in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

About MTBC/Tech Titans
Founded in 1994 by MCI, Nortel Networks, Fujitsu, and Rockwell International, the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC) is non-profit 501(c)(6) organization. Membership in the MTBC consists of technology members (80 percent of membership) and provider members (20 percent of membership). Membership is open to all technology companies. The MTBC is dedicated to fostering a supportive business environment for technology companies and members of the technology community through leadership, advocacy, education and cooperative initiatives.

The Tech Titans awards were launched in 2001 by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), North Texas' most comprehensive organization supporting technology. The Tech Titans committee is a group of dedicated volunteers that each year organizes the annual awards ceremony. Judges are drawn from a variety of disciplines in technology, leaders in the area and past winners. For more information, visit www.metroplextbc.org/techtitans.

About GTESS
GTESS is an innovative healthcare claim transaction technology company that delivers automated pre-adjudication claims processing on a pay-as-you-go basis to healthcare payers who need to decrease costs and enhance customer service. Unlike other technology applications, error-prone offshore operators or internal solutions, GTESS is 100 percent focused on the healthcare industry, providing a claims processing solution that can save health insurers millions of dollars annually by lowering the cost per claim and dramatically improving accuracy, consistency and customer response. GTESS (www.gtess.com) is headquartered in Richardson, Texas with technical operations facilities located in Dallas and Irvine, California.