Benefit Informatics Reaches 1,000 Employer Milestone.

TULSA, Okla. -- In the few years since the June 2001 launch of its benefit management technology, Benefit Informatics Inc. announced today it now serves more than 1,000 employers representing more than 700,000 employees and their families nationwide.

Strategic alliances with some of the country's largest third party administrators of health benefit plans are accelerating growth, according to Philip Kurtz, chief executive officer of Benefit Informatics.

"As the competitive landscape for health plans and administrative service organizations continues to advance, Benefit Informatics provides significant advantages to benefit providers," said Kurtz. "By adding value to the traditional service offerings of plan administrators and helping improve the bottom-line performance of the benefit plans they administer, Benefit Informatics is helping defeat year-after-year of double-digit increases in healthcare costs with easy-to-deploy technologies aimed at providing greater information to all parties in the healthcare utilization supply chain."

Benefit providers use an online management information service supplied by Benefit Informatics to give employers important data on benefit utilization patterns and to develop detailed analyses of the financial performance of their health plans. Additional products include technology that helps with plan administration by offering consumer-oriented features for clients, as well as other applications that work to increase employee satisfaction with their health plans. Benefit Informatics also offers integrated planning technology that forecasts health benefit plan costs based upon historical data.

"Benefit Informatics provided the perfect product solution in two key areas of our strategic positioning for the future -- data reporting and analysis, and a Web platform to support consumer-directed health plans," said Mark Williams, executive vice president of The Epoch Group. "After an extensive search, we found the best product solutions with the same company. Benefit Informatics quickly allowed us to differentiate ourselves as a leading benefits management company."

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(TM), Benefit Analyzer(TM) and Benefit Planner(TM). Through its clients, Benefit Informatics currently serves more than 1000 businesses, managing health benefits for more than 700,000 members. For additional information, please call 918-491-3600 or visit www.benefitinformatics.com. Benefit Informatics was previously known as Incentus.