08.17.06 | TRANSFIRST and Professional Economics Bureau of America Provide Integrated Payment Processing for XLDent™ Practice Management Users

Fully integrated state-of-the-art technology will enable users to seamlessly process credit card and ACH transactions from their XLDent™ system

DALLAS and LORETTO, MN (August 16, 2006) — TRANSFIRST Health Services, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of TRANSFIRST HOLDINGS, INC., a leading provider of credit card processing services and payment enabling technologies, and Professional Economics Bureau of America, Inc (PEB), a respected dental software developer serving over 1,000 dentists, today announced a partnership that will provide customers of PEB’s XLDent™ Practice Management System with fully integrated payment processing capabilities. The new service linking the TRANSFIRST TRANSACTION CENTRAL™ system to the XLDent™ system dramatically improves current traditional stand-alone POS terminal processing systems, increasing efficiency in handling patient payments at the time of service, and in recurring scenarios. Staff in the dental office can process credit card and ACH payments without leaving their XLDent™ system, with the added features of auto-posting payments to patient records and accounting ledgers. Users will realize productivity and work flow gains through this integration.

The new service combines TRANSFIRST’s processing capabilities for credit card and ACH, manual and automatic recurring payments, and custom report generation with the XLDent™ Practice Management System. Utilizing one system, XLDent’s customer functionality will include patient information, financial ledger, reporting, scheduling, diagnostics, advanced imaging, treatment plans, patient education, billing, and now credit card and ACH payment processing. XLDent™ users will no longer have to move outside of their system to handle a credit card or ACH payment via a stand alone terminal, wait for a dial-up response, then re-key that information back into their own system for updates to the patient file and accounting ledger; transactions will be entered into the system and the payment response from TransFirst will post directly into XLDent™ eliminating the need for redundant data entry.

“We are continually looking for ways to integrate key business functions into our XLDent™ Suite of products, so our clients can realize increased efficiencies”, explains PEB President, Dawn Christodoulou. “Our partnership with TransFirst has allowed us to create a seamless, easy-to-use credit card processing feature that eliminates dual entry and traditional point-of-sale terminals. Everything is quick, easy, and completely integrated. This is the kind of innovation that XLDent™ users have come to expect from PEB.”

Christy Corey, President for TRANSFIRST’s Health Services division explains, “This partnership is another advance in the dental market between two technology firms delivering a powerful solution to improve practice efficiency. Currently most healthcare practices utilize stand-alone systems to process patient payments; these systems are neither efficient nor cost effective. Healthcare has been lagging in certain segments of technology largely due to the fact that there has been little need to address private pay collection; it simply represented an insignificant percent of overall revenue. Merchants in retail environments worldwide can process payments from consumers seamlessly via fully integrated systems, yet the most advanced healthcare systems in the world still utilize stand-alone systems. We believe our newly formed partnership with PEB addresses this situation.”

About PEB
Professional Economics Bureau of America, Inc. is a privately owned Dental Software Development and Services Company with its headquarters located at 279 North Medina Street in Loretto, Minnesota. PEB has focused on servicing the high technology needs of the dental community since 1971. PEB is dedicated to providing user-friendly dental software that both administrative and clinical staff can utilize to enhance patient care and services. PEB is committed to developing products and services that are on the cutting edge of technology with emphasis on dental health, client profitability, superior customer services, and preservation of private dental care. The XLDent? Practice Management System takes advantage of the latest in software development methodologies and design tools to provide users with the most intuitive, robust, easiest-to-use dental program available. XLDent ? will help users automate key business processes and will ensure that dental teams have the tools they need to manage their practice more profitably. PEB can be reached at 1-800-328-2925 or at www.PEBA.com.

About TRANSFIRST
A premier provider of transaction processing services and payment enabling technologies, TRANSFIRST offers a first-rate suite of products and services and customized processing programs uniquely tailored for the special business needs of financial institutions, independent sales organizations and agents and its referral and reseller partners. Through its in-depth industry knowledge, partnership strategy and innovative solutions, TRANSFIRST provides a specialized approach to transaction processing for healthcare providers, public entities, online and other non-traditional merchants, as well as brick and mortar retailers. Founded in 1995, TRANSFIRST is a market leader in strategic mergers and acquisitions, which has allowed the company to gain significant market share and world-class expertise in growing and profitable industry segments. Built on a platform of personal service, customer commitment and flexible pricing, TRANSFIRST is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has operations facilities in Louisville, Colo., Omaha, Neb., Kansas City, Kan., Newport Beach, Calif., Milwaukee, Wis. and Langhorne, Penn. Company wide, TRANSFIRST currently processes approximately $22 billion in annual sales volume for more than 160,000 merchants and more than 965 financial institutions. TRANSFIRST can be reached at 1-800-745-2659 or at www.TRANSFIRST.com.