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Benefit Informatics, a leading healthcare data warehouse provider for payers serving the self-insured health plan market, was recently named a TriZetto Premier Partnership ProgramTM vendor by The TriZetto Group (NASDAQ: TZIX). This new designation further expands the distribution alliance Benefit Informatics and TriZetto established in 2006. As a Premier Partnership Program vendor, Benefit Informatics offers TriZetto customers using the QicLinkTM system for benefits administration access to a suite of data analysis, reporting and plan-modeling applications. Today, a number of TriZetto customers are already using Benefit Informatics services to differentiate their operations in the market and help increase productivity. �TriZetto is excited about the expanded relationship with Benefit Informatics,� said Joe Manheim, senior vice president of TriZetto�s benefits administration business unit. �The data analytic capabilities of the Benefit Informatics offerings allow us to integrate and report the data from our various Premier Partners, such as pharmacy benefit data and telephone consultations, in a way that allows our third-party administrator customers to be better risk managers for their employer groups.� �We are pleased to be named a Premier Partner by TriZetto,� said Philip Kurtz, Benefit Informatics president and CEO. �We have a strong and growing distribution alliance with TriZetto that is providing excellent integration for many common customers currently, and we expect to provide services to additional TriZetto clients in the near future. We consider our alliance with TriZetto a very important business relationship for Benefit Informatics.� TriZetto announced its Premier Partnership Program initiative in September of 2007 to offer benefit administrators special program pricing for supplemental software and services that are pre-integrated with the widely used QicLink administration system. About Benefit Informatics Benefit Informatics Inc. enables the efficient planning, management and analysis of employee benefit plans through the delivery of online proprietary applications and services to insurance companies, Third Party Administrators, brokers and employers. Through its clients, Benefit Informatics currently serves more than 3,600 businesses, managing health benefits for nearly 2 million members. Benefit Informatics works closely with customers to provide solutions that help attract new customers, retain current clients and operate more efficiently. Please contact us to see how we can help your organization Sell, Keep and Do More�. For additional information, please call (888) 802-INFO (4636) or visit www.benefitinformatics.com. About TriZetto TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management�. With its technology touching nearly half of the U.S. insured population, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of health benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. The company provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers. Healthcare payers include national and regional health insurance plans, and benefits administrators that provide transaction services to self-insured employer groups. The company�s payer-focused information technology offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services, and consulting. Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., TriZetto can be reached at 949-719-2200 or at www.trizetto.com.