An analysis of Vested Health's more than 11,000 members shows that after
four years of providing leading-edge, consumer -driven healthcare solutions,
its average rate increases are well below national health plan rate increase
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Another important result that relates to the consumer-directed trend in
health care is the amount of funds that have rolled over and are available to
Vested Health members to utilize for health care goods and services of their
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When: "Unwarranted Variation in Healthcare: Root Causes and
Remedies" will take place during the Disease Management
Track on:
Monday, March 7th from 2:00PM - 3:00PM


About Health Dialog:

Health Dialog is a leading provider of care management services ,
including disease management, and is one of the fastest growing
privately held firms in the U .S.

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According to the most recent semi-annual National Health Care Trend Survey
conducted by Mellon, U.1% to 14. Wennberg, MD, President and Chief Operating Officer,
Health Dialog Data Service

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"Vested Health is providing unprecedented control to consumers," said Mike
Baker, CEO of Vested Health.

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, Vested Health announced today
that its consumer-driven solutions have achieved much better results than
traditional health plans designed solely around the utilization of defined
benefits. For more information on how Vested Health helps
companies control rising medical expenses, call 1-866-347-3640 or visit them
on the web at http: //www..

Members from television, newspapers and magazines are invited
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This means that more than 60% of the funds made available to employees by
their employer was available for their use in the second year of the plan. For
example, if an employer makes $1 ,000 available to an employee via a Vested
Health HRA program, on average more than $600 would roll over to the following
year, giving the employee more than $1,600 available for their use in year
two. Also encouraged to attend are industry and
financial analysts as well as C-level and senior executives in
the healthcare industry. The firm helps physician groups,
health plans, and self-insured employers improve healthcare quality
while reducing overall costs.

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S. The Vested Health Study showed that:
* employers with fewer than 50 Employees had a roll over rate of 60.
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Vested Health Consumer-Directed Health Plan Announces Positive Results

Health Dialog helps individuals become more actively
engaged in their healthcare and have more effective relationships with
their physicians.

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"We have a proven history of enabling consumers of care to make sound
decisions for themselves and we are working each and every day to create price
transparency at the point of sale for health care, so that we are able to
provide programs that help businesses, physicians and Vested Health members
take control of their health care while reducing administrative expense,"
Baker concluded.

Where: Washington DC Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place, (Corner of 9th Street) NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Baker continued, "This data proves we are
fulfilling our mission to help consumers achieve health care financial freedom
and to enable businesses to stabilize their health care costs over the long-
term.

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employers are expecting between 12.

Vested Health has members in 15 states and has recently expanded its
operations to Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Kentucky.

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* employers with more than 50 employees was only 7.8%
* employers with more than 50 Employees had a roll-over rate of 63..

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Key findings in the Vested Health Study show
that overall rate increases for:
* employers with fewer than 50 employees was only 4.com

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Wennberg will explore how this concept
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The Vested Health Study also proved that when designed correctly,
consumer-driven health care is not a cost shifting mechanism, but a way to
shift decision-making and assets to the people who should be making those
decisions in coordination with their physicians - consumers of care.

ADVISORY/Health Dialog Executive to Present on Unwarranted Variation in Healthcare at the 2005 National Managed Healthcare Congress

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Wennberg will be speaking at this year's National
Managed Healthcare Congress (NMHCC) on the topic:

"Unwarranted Variation in Healthcare: Root Causes and
Remedies"
Rising costs and increasing concerns over quality and
efficiency have placed unprecedented pressure on the
healthcare industry. Wennberg will revisit the concept of
Unwarranted Variation in healthcare, which has been evolving
for more than 35 years.

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