Benefit Informatics Announces Partnership with TriZetto for Comprehensive Online Member, Group, and Benefit Administrator Access.

TULSA, Okla. -- Benefit Informatics, Inc., today announced a distribution alliance with The TriZetto Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TZIX). Under the agreement, Benefit Informatics will provide its innovative benefit plan management information solutions to customers utilizing TriZetto's QicLink(TM) Extended Enterprise (QicLink e(2)) administrative system. The alliance was formed to provide QicLink customers with expanded analysis, reporting and communications tools to help manage the cost of care.

QicLink e(2) is the most widely used production-proven software engine for benefits administration. The comprehensive system delivers rapid return on investment by maximizing auto-adjudication rates and reducing claims-processing costs. The core QicLink e(2) system manages key health-claim transaction processes, including membership, provider files, plan definition, and re-insurance. More than 150 benefits administrators covering the lives of 5,000,000 employees utilize the industry-leading system.

This strategic distribution agreement provides QicLink e(2) customers with the opportunity to access Benefit Informatics' Benefit Manager(SM), Benefit Analyzer(SM), and Benefit Planner(SM) web-based tools. With these tools, benefits administrators, employers, and plan members can manage benefits in an increasingly consumer-driven healthcare environment. Currently, more than 1,500 employers use Benefit Informatics' systems and services for analysis, reporting, cost containment, and member communication.

"We are very pleased to be partnering with TriZetto to bring our technology and expertise to their customers," said Benefit Informatics CEO Philip Kurtz. "TriZetto's industry-leading QicLink e(2) system, combined with Benefit Informatics' information delivery services, provides both organizations with a unique opportunity to deliver to plan administrators, brokers, consultants, employer executives and plan members the vital information to improve overall health plan utilization and performance."

According to Rick Fitzgerald, senior vice president of Benefits Administration for TriZetto, "This partnership further supports TriZetto's aggressive strategy to provide third-party administrators with the tools they need to enhance revenue growth, drive administrative efficiency, and improve the cost and quality of care. By putting advanced management and analysis capabilities in the hands of benefits administrators, as well as making tools available that support intelligent care choices for participants, we can provide our payer clients with a competitive advantage given the growing consumer trend and rising plan costs."

About Benefit Informatics

Benefit Informatics enables the efficient planning, management and analysis of employee benefit plans through the delivery of proprietary applications and services to benefit providers through direct and indirect sales channels to plan providers, insurance companies and third party administrators. The company's products include Benefit Manager(SM), Benefit Analyzer(SM) and Benefit Planner(SM). Through its clients, Benefit Informatics currently serves more than 1,500 businesses, managing health benefits for more than 1,000,000 members. For additional information, please call 918-491-3600 or visit www.benefitinformatics.com.

About TriZetto

TriZetto serves the payer market, comprised of national and regional health insurance plans as well as benefits administrators, which provide transaction services to self-insured employer groups. The company offers a broad portfolio of information technology products - software, outsourcing services, and consulting services - tailored to the needs of healthcare payers. Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., TriZetto can be reached at 949-719-2200 or www.trizetto.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: In the product name "QicLink e(2)" mentioned in this news release, the (2) is to appear as a superscript.