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PRWT Services and QualDent today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to offer innovative dental program management solutions to both public and private dental care payors. Through this partnership, the companies will provide much needed dental plan management solutions to managed Medicaid health plans, Medicare Advantage plans, state-managed dental programs, commercial insurers, and self-funded employer groups. PRWT Services Business Process Solutions offers innovative administrative, claims and enrollment administration solutions with advanced assessment capabilities. QualDent is a recognized leader in dental practice management, dental plan management, and network evaluation.

"PRWT, known for their efficient, automated administrative processes affords QualDent the opportunity to take the dental payor industry methods to another level cost effectively," explained David Williams, Ph.D., chief executive officer of QualDent. "We are excited to see the dynamic capabilities this powerful alliance brings our clients. PRWT offers us the ability to implement focused, multi-local solutions to dental management programs. This all translates into improved access to care, smarter use of premium allocations, and improved health status of people served."

Expert in developing access to high quality dental care for government and commercially-funded plans, QualDent is unique by offering dental plan management services that integrate with the medical management programs that insurance plans offer. This integrated approach to dental plan management permits greater market-based efficiencies, thereby allowing plans to better manage their administrative loss ratio as well as their medical loss ratios. QualDent's Integrated Delivery System offers clients a comprehensive suite of dental management services that include dental disease management of high risk patients, dental Pay for Performance programs and quality-based provider network recruitment and management solutions.

Mark Schweiker, president of PRWT Business Process Solutions, sees this partnership meeting the needs of everyone involved and served. "This alliance is very exciting to PRWT, as it allows us to extend our program management expertise into an area that has long lagged in innovation and meet our socially responsible mission to improve the lives of constituents in the various markets we serve. QualDent is the perfect partner for us in that they recognize and have been delivering innovations to the dental industry for years. Together, we are able to bring the public and private sectors a healthcare related solution that lowers cost and improves care."

"With the right administration, dental program management can serve as a powerful tool for better controlling the costs of high risk medical populations," stated Dr. Lawrence Paul, chief dental officer for QualDent. "Now with the administrative capabilities of PRWT, health plans can expect to realize the relationship between oral health management and personal wellness translates into improved management of premium dollars."

About PRWT Services, Inc.

PRWT is a diversified enterprise of pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, facilities management and maintenance, and business process solutions services. As a nationally recognized minority-business enterprise, PRWT is one of the largest minority-owned businesses headquartered in the Greater Philadelphia Region and has been ranked in the top 100 minority-owned service industry businesses in the United States by Black Enterprise magazine for the past nine years and was named its Industrial/Services Company of the Year for 2009. For more information, visit www.prwt.com.

About QualDent, LLC

QualDent is a Pennsylvania-based, minority-owned company that is committed to providing access to high quality oral health care. Critical to the company's mission is the integration of best practices in quality-oriented clinical and program management to assist patients in improving health status. Their consultants have served some of the largest and most respected health plans in the nation, as well as federal, state and international governments in the development and management of healthcare. For more information, visit www.qualdent.net.