December 1, 2015

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:HMSY) announced today that is has been selected as a finalist in this year's Fierce Innovation Awards: Payer Edition, an awards program from the publisher of FierceHealthPayer and FierceHealthcare. HMS was recognized as one of three finalists in the category of Fraud and Abuse Prevention/Detection.

HMS was selected as a finalist for its innovative, industry leading fraud prevention module, link visualization. The cloud-based solution builds on the company's fraud prevention capabilities, allowing healthcare payers to quickly identify potential collaboration and collusion between suspect providers and members.

Healthcare fraud costs the country tens of billions of dollars a year. The deliberately deceptive nature of many schemes is based on complex and hidden relationships and multiple layers of individuals and entities. HMS's new tool allows payers to better identify these layers through data visualization in order to find potential fraud quickly.

The Fierce Innovation Awards recognize pioneering technologies and solutions that will catapult the health payer industry into exciting new realms. Finalists were chosen by a distinguished panel of executives from major health plans. A complete list of judges can be found at https://www.fierceinnovationawards.com/healthpayer/2015#our_judges.

All applications were evaluated based on the following criteria: technology innovation, financial impact/value, competitive advantage, member experience/member outcomes, market need, and overall and innovation. Finalists were selected based on calculation of the judges' scores in each area.

'HMS is proud to be a finalist in this year's awards program,' said Bill Lucia, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. 'Our new link visualization tool represents the next step in the evolution of our suite of improper payment solutions for healthcare payers. Now payers have easy access to state-of-the-art technology for identifying and rooting out fraud.'

To learn more about HMS, visit www.hms.com.

About HMS

HMS powers healthcare with integrity by helping payers contain costs. Using innovative and time-tested technology and analytics, we prevent improper claims and recover overpayments. HMS delivers actionable results that improve performance and save payers billions of dollars every year.

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HMS Holdings Corp. Francesca Marraro, 212-857-5442
fmarraro@hms.com

Source: HMS Holdings Corp.

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