Advertisement
The acquisition will allow each company to expand its efforts to improvehealth care quality and reduce health care costs for its customers.Resolution Health will continue to enhance and expand the services it providesto WellPoint as well as to its growing number of other customers nationwide.
Advertisement
Demand for personalized, actionable health care guidance continues to growas consumers become more involved in managing their own care. As an industryleader in proactive health care management, WellPoint has found thatevidence-based health interventions can help improve treatment by identifyingpotential drug interactions, gaps in care, and other issues.
"Resolution Health has been a valued partner in analyzing WellPointmembers' health data and providing suggestions to improve care and outcomesfor more than two years," said Dijuana Lewis, president and CEO of WellPoint'sComprehensive Health Solutions Unit. "This acquisition will allow us to fullyintegrate Resolution Health's suite of products to extend the range andquality of services for our members, as well as members across the health plansystem."
Earl Steinberg, MD, MPP, president and CEO of Resolution Health said,"Resolution Health is built on the belief that the quality and costeffectiveness of health care can be dramatically improved through clinicallysound, individual member-focused communications programs. Becoming a part ofWellPoint -- a company that shares these values -- furthers our goal ofhelping every individual receive the best, most cost-effective health carepossible."
Using its market-leading technology, Resolution Health analyzes themedical and pharmacy claims data, lab results, health benefit plan informationand personal health information of individual plan members. WellPoint willwork with Resolution Health to identify opportunities to help close gapsbetween recommended care -- based upon nationally accepted, evidence-basedclinical guidelines -- and the care that members actually receive, and reducemedical costs for individuals, their employers and their health plans.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The transaction will not havean impact on WellPoint's current earnings per share guidance for 2008.
WellPoint:
WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of medicalmembership in the United States. WellPoint is an independent licensee of theBlue Cross and Blue Shield Association and serves its members as the BlueCross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee forColorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (asEmpire Blue Cross Blue Shield in 10 New York City metropolitan and surroundingcounties and as Empire Blue Cross or Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield in selectedupstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the city of Fairfax, thetown of Vienna and the area east of State Route 123.), Wisconsin; and throughUniCare. Additional information about WellPoint is available atwww.wellpoint.com .
About Resolution Health, Inc.
Resolution Health, Inc. is a data analytics-driven personal health careguidance company. Its services have been proven to improve the quality,coordination and safety of health care, enhance communications betweenpatients and their physicians and reduce medical costs. Resolution Healthserves health plans, self-insured employers, unions, third-partyadministrators, disease management firms and pharmacy benefits managers. Visithttp://www.resolutionhealth.com
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIE
