Indegene Strengthens US Healthcare Market Presence Through Acquisition of Atlanta-based Total Therapeutic Management, Inc.

ISELIN, NJ, Jan. 2, 2014 /CNW/ - Indegene (http://www.indegene.com), a leading global provider of Clinical, Commercial, and Marketing solutions to global life science, pharmaceutical, and healthcare organizations today announced that it has acquired Atlanta-based quality improvement, outcomes research, and clinician engagement services company Total Therapeutic Management, Inc. (http://www.rxttm.com) to expand its healthcare division (http://www.indegenehealthcare.com) service portfolio and market presence.

Founded in 1995, Total Therapeutic Management (TTM) provides solutions to several large healthcare organizations including the Federal Government in the areas of Academic Detailing, HEDIS/STAR Improvement, Outcomes Research, and Medical Record Retrieval/Review.

Dr. Rajesh Nair, President - Indegene, said, "Over the last 18 years, TTM has built significant expertise and experience in effectively utilizing sound clinical knowledge and engagement tactics to improve healthcare quality. This transaction expands Indegene Healthcare's presence in the commercial and federal healthcare markets and increases our quality solution portfolio. We are delighted to have the TTM team join us."

Ed Perez, Pharm.D. CEO and co-founder - TTM, stated, "We are delighted to be partnering with Indegene. This new phase will allow us to leverage Indegene's global, clinical and technology capabilities to further accelerate investments, and offer our clients a broader range of services from Indegene Healthcare's portfolio."

"We will be launching several new offerings in the areas of Risk Management, Quality Improvement and Engagement that leverage the joint capabilities of TTM and Indegene," added Barry Patel, Pharm.D. President and co-founder-TTM.

Manish Gupta, CEO - Indegene, said, "Recently, we carved out Indegene Healthcare - the company's healthcare-focused business division to enable payers and providers thrive in the changing healthcare environment through accelerated transformation, increased customer focus, and better business and health outcomes. This transaction further expands our quality solutions portfolio as well as fortifies Indegene's commitment to provide its healthcare clients world-class solutions and experience." The company reported that TTM Inc. will continue to grow its business as Indegene TTM Inc. with the same leadership and organizational structure. Dr. Nair summarized by saying, "TTM's clients will continue to receive the same level of superior service and expertise and will additionally have the extended Indegene eco-system to rely on."

About Indegene

Indegene is a leading provider of Clinical, Commercial and Marketing solutions to global pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations. We partner with clients to drive both productivity and revenues by delivering better patient outcomes; optimizing cost; enhancing R&D agility and improving sales and marketing effectiveness. We apply deep scientific knowledge, flexible delivery models, proprietary technology, and a client-centric approach to drive transformational initiatives.

With offices in US, UK, China, India, and Australia, Indegene can partner globally with clients, leverage a global talent pool of clinicians, technologists, creative specialists, domain experts, business process specialists, deploy global infrastructure assets, and harness global healthcare knowledge to solve client challenges. For more information, visit http://www.indegenehealthcare.com

About Total Therapeutic Management, Inc.

Based in metropolitan Atlanta, GA, Total Therapeutic Management (TTM) is a unique physician-focused quality improvement company that provides health information management, research and education support services to some of the nation's largest healthcare organizations. TTM's services have helped organizations improve quality as measured through HEDIS and other quality measures by helping patients ultimately achieve treatment goals based on national guidelines for chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. Since 1995, TTM is the company healthcare organizations have relied on to deliver critical sound information that ultimately leads to better health outcomes. TTM has successfully implemented projects in various disease states with hundreds of managed care plans and health systems nationwide. For more information, visit http://www.rxttm.com.

SOURCE: Indegene

Indegene Healthcare, Ann-Marie Craggan, Phone: [phone], Email: [email protected]; TTM, Tracey Define, Phone: [phone], Email: [email protected]