Benefit Informatics Expands Distribution Alliance with TriZetto.

TULSA, Okla. -- Benefit Informatics, Inc., today announced an expansion of its distribution alliance with The TriZetto Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TZIX) to provide innovative benefit plan management information solutions to customers utilizing TriZetto's healthcare benefit administration services, including software hosting, business process outsourcing, and consulting. With the expanded relationship, these TriZetto customers can now receive enhanced analysis, reporting and communications tools to help control costs and improve efficiencies in benefit administration.

TriZetto provides a full complement of benefit administration technology and transaction service that clients can use to improve operational effectiveness while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to a rapidly changing healthcare environment. TriZetto customers can choose to have TriZetto manage the full benefit administration process, or they can select TriZetto services to meet a variety of business requirements.

With Benefit Informatics' Benefit Analyzer([R]) services, TriZetto can offer clients access to analytical and reporting tools that allow users to review health plan performance. Users also have the ability to benchmark and organize health claims data on-demand, and compare diagnoses, procedure costs and utilization patterns.

"The expansion of our distribution alliance with TriZetto is an excellent opportunity for Benefit Informatics to provide our services to more leading benefit administrators," said Philip Kurtz, Benefit Informatics president and CEO. "This move enhances our strong relationship with TriZetto and gives us the opportunity to add value to their customers that choose benefit administration services."

"The expansion of this alliance further supports TriZetto's 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," said Gloria Gonzalez, vice president of Benefit Administration Transaction Services for TriZetto. "With these management and analysis capabilities, we can help give our benefit administration customers the tools to support better healthcare choices by participants, and, in turn, a competitive advantage in the new world of consumer retail healthcare."

Added Bob Goodman, Employee Benefits Manager for Manatee County, a joint customer of TriZetto and Benefit Informatics, "Manatee County is very excited to have the Benefit Informatics data warehouse and analysis tools available for financial and clinical analysis in conjunction with our TriZetto QicLink system. We find the Benefit Informatics service to be user-friendly, fast and accurate. Our advocacy program is using the Benefit Informatics tools for clinical analysis and find it well-suited for financial predictive modeling."

About Benefit Informatics

Benefit Informatics Inc. 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([R]), Benefit Analyzer([R]), Benefit Planner([R]), Enroller(SM), Verifier(SM), Connecter(SM) and REporter(SM). Through its clients, Benefit Informatics currently serves more than 2,300 businesses, managing health benefits for more than 1.3 million members. For additional information, please call [phone] 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 [phone] or www.trizetto.com.