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Foundation Surgery Affiliates Selects PHNS For Coding Compliance Services

DALLAS, TX - March 4, 2008 - Foundation Surgery Affiliates ("FSA"), located in Oklahoma City, OK, a healthcare management organization focused on ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals, has chosen PHNS to provide coding compliance services. PHNS will provide FSA with experienced, credentialed HIM professionals to perform thorough reviews of medical record coding to ensure accuracy in documentation and applied coding. PHNS will access FSA's electronic health records through a remote-access virtual private network to exchange patient information in a secure and confidential environment.

PHNS' HIM Division currently provides interim staff placement, coding, auditing, education, release of information, records management and transcription services for over 385 healthcare customers. All services are offered on an 'as needed' basis or on a full service outsourcing relationship.

About Foundation Surgery Affiliates: FSA specializes in ambulatory surgery center and surgical hospital development, design, partner recruitment and operations. In addition, FSA offers facility management and operations services for ambulatory surgery centers, medical office buildings, imaging centers, surgical hospitals, bariatric centers and Healthplexes. FSA is a healthcare management organization founded on the values of excellence, leadership, integrity and compassion. See www.foundationsurgery.com for additional information about Foundation Surgery Affiliates.

About PHNS: PHNS provides information technology (IT) services for hospitals, other healthcare providers and businesses. PHNS' IT services include application hosting, co-location and managed services; electronic off-site data back-up and data vaulting; business continuity solutions; disaster recovery services; and systems integration services. PHNS also provides comprehensive business process solutions for hospitals including health information management (including medical record management and storage, transcription, coding, release of information and electronic medical record services), advisory and receivables management services. PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing technology and increasing cash on hand, which allows hospitals to focus on their core competency--patient care. PHNS has approximately 900 customers, including approximately 400 hospital IT and business process customers and approximately 500 IT customers. PHNS is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. See www.phns.com for additional information about PHNS.