Mitchell International, Inc., a provider of information, workflow and performance management solutions to the property/casualty claims and collision repair industries, has signed an agreement to purchase the P&C medical bill review business segment of Ingenix.

As a result of the agreement, the Ingenix P&C medical bill review business will become part of Mitchell. Ingenix, through its focus on delivering information solutions to the healthcare industry, will continue to bring other advanced payer solutions to the P&C market including its administrative and medical cost containment and analytics capabilities, such as MedPoint, Credit Balance, and Medical Analytics Consulting.

Ingenix and Mitchell will collaborate through a strategic relationship meant to bring comprehensive solutions to clients, helping them reduce loss costs, lower loss adjustment expenses, and solve medical analytic challenges.

"Today's announcement is good news for Mitchell, Ingenix, and our respective customers," says Alex Sun, president and CEO of Mitchell. "This purchase further exemplifies our commitment to key, strategic relationships and investments that enable us to develop and deliver the industry's leading technology solutions to the P&C market. We welcome the Ingenix medical bill review team to Mitchell."

Steve Suter, general manager property and casualty for Ingenix, says, "We believe that the Mitchell SmartAdvisor medical bill review platform is best positioned to meet the current and future medical bill review needs of our P&C clients. We look forward to collaborating with Mitchell in the future to bring additional solutions to the P&C market, as Ingenix continues its focus on developing intelligence, workflow and connectivity solutions for health care that improve performance, create efficiencies, and contain costs."