Business Profile

Description: Goold Health Systems is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emdeon Inc. Emdeon is the largest intelligent financial administrative and clinical health information network in the nation, processing more than seven billion transactions with a claims value of $1 trillion annually. Emdeon's Intelligent Healthcare Network(tm) reaches 70,000 physicians, 81,000 dentists, 60,000 pharmacies, 5,000 hospitals, 600 vendors, 450 laboratories and 1,200 government and commercial payers. GHS was incorporated in the State of Maine four decades ago and keeps its headquarters here today, although its influence is felt throughout the United States. GHS has earned a reputation as a national leader in Medicaid health care management, data processing, and administration. Founded in 1974, GHS was originally part of the Paid Prescriptions/Health Applications System of Burlingame, California. The company changed names to Health Systems Institute (HSI) in January 1978. Four years later, on June 1, 1982, William Waldron of Falmouth, Maine, purchased HSI and renamed it Goold Health Systems.