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SelectHealth Replaces Sales Automation System with TriZetto's QuoteToCard Solution Integrated with Facets Platform

"We expect TriZetto's product will reduce the quote-to-identification-card generation process time by more than 50 percent - from weeks to days," said Mark Brown, vice president and chief financial officer at SelectHealth. "QuoteToCard will reduce the number of manual touch points, accelerate the sales and underwriting process, move new products to market faster and shorten the entire cycle."

"One of the primary reasons we selected TriZetto is the supported integration of the QuoteToCard solution with the Facets enterprise administration system," said Brown. "This integration is expected to provide a materially higher return on investment than a stand-alone product with a custom interface to our core membership system. We spent several weeks with the TriZetto product strategy team reviewing our sales process, developing key stakeholder consensus on system requirements and quantifying our potential return on investment. The domain expertise demonstrated by TriZetto was tremendously beneficial in clarifying our strategy and selecting a solution."

"As an early adopter of TriZetto's QuoteToCard solution, SelectHealth's sales, underwriting and system team is committed to having the nation's first integrated individual and small-employer sales process," said Eric Grossman, TriZetto's vice president of revenue enablement. "Both organizations are confident that increased efficiencies in case installation will bring competitive advantage to SelectHealth in the individual and small-group market segments sold through traditional distribution channels and the Utah Health Insurance Exchange."

Both Brown and Grossman added that SelectHealth will benefit from improved transparency across the sales cycle. Brokers, consumers and SelectHealth users will have better visibility into the status of an application or enrollment.

SelectHealth has an internally built and maintained online system for small-group employer sales. Although the online system functions well, SelectHealth concluded that TriZetto's QuoteToCard solution "would decrease system maintenance expense and improve speed to market with new products while sustaining SelectHealth's strong product portfolio, competitive rates and high retention in both small-group and individual policy sales," according to Brown.

SelectHealth's individual market segment is expected to be online using TriZetto's quoting and enrollment capability this summer. Small-employer business is expected to be live by the end of the year. Renewal functionality will deploy early next year to both the individual and small-group lines.

TriZetto launched its QuoteToCard solution in early March. The QuoteToCard product is a component of a larger suite of sales and service automation tools, including policy administration, online billing and commission capabilities and health insurance connector/exchange administration for health plans and state governments.

TriZetto's suite of sales and service automation tools helps improve the ability of healthcare payers and brokers to work together and transact business more time- and cost-effectively. This suite of technology tools advances Integrated Healthcare Management (IHM), TriZetto's industry vision for optimizing the coordination of benefits and care for the healthcare consumer. IHM employs software and IT services to improve information-sharing and incentive alignment not only by health plans and brokers, but by all constituents of the U.S. healthcare system.

About SelectHealth

Based in Salt Lake City, SelectHealth^SM provides health insurance for nearly 500,000 members in Utah. As part of one of the nation's top-ranked integrated health systems, Intermountain Healthcare, SelectHealth shares a nonprofit mission of healthcare excellence, working to enhance value by ensuring high-quality healthcare at the lowest possible cost for the community. SelectHealth is recognized as the first commercial health plan in Utah to receive "Excellent" accreditation status by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, an independent, not-for-profit organization.

About TriZetto

Founded in 1997, TriZetto is the leading privately held healthcare information technology company to the healthcare payer industry. With its technology touching half of the U.S. insured population, TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management, the systematic application of processes and shared information to optimize the coordination of benefits and care for the healthcare consumer. The company's offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting, outsourcing services and consulting that help payers implement and optimize their operations and minimize the risk of bringing to market new products that drive competitive differentiation.

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loren.finkelstein@trizetto.com
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