Pete:

Unfortunately this clearinghouse (which is the only one here now)

strangle and took off the market the other clearinghouses and

bought three of the largest medical software companies. So they now

compete directly with us the smaller software companies (less than

2000 hundred clients). Our clients must use their services (there is no

other option) the majority of the local insurance companies receive

exclusively through them.

They have a software marketing display in all the web pages with all the

features that our clients see each and every time we enter their website,

even though

they told us they won't do this in our last meeting, 8 months ago. I bet

you anything that

very soon they will display this particular feature on their software

marketing campaign,

and our clients will begin to ask us for this, right now we are sending

using a small communications software that they provide for free, but once

they

have sending directly from their programs running on their clients, they

could easily

pull the plug on the communications program and leave us behind. The only

thing that

keep us small companies going is to have the features and all new EDI

changes before them.

So what else could it be?

Regards,

AiR

Aida I. Rivera-Ben