DENVER, Colo.- December 14, 2011 – The TriZetto Group, Inc. today announced that it has added further depth to its leadership ranks, naming Thomas Rekart senior vice president of business management services and Scott Ray senior vice president of application management services. Rekart will direct a global team that offers cost-effective onshore, offshore and blended staffing models that support healthcare information business processes, including front-end services, claims processing, enrollment, configuration and billing. Ray leads a team that provides healthcare organizations with a full complement of application hosting services – infrastructure, connectivity, delivery, data and security – as well as comprehensive application management, remote application management and lifecycle services.

“Tom and Scott represent an investment by TriZetto in the very best leadership team to create a best-in-class services organization that continues to support payer and provider business success,” said Trace Devanny, TriZetto’s chairman and CEO. “These individuals are strong, capable leaders with the depth and breadth of expertise that will help strengthen and scale our organization to meet the dramatic growth we project for our application management services, business management services and consulting.”

“TriZetto processes claims for more than 50 healthcare customers annually, and I see tremendous growth opportunity because business management services can deliver such significant, proven benefits to many additional payers and providers,” said Rekart. “TriZetto’s business management services customers have benefitted from cost savings of as much as 40 percent in claims processing, increased procedural accuracy of 99.4 percent, increased financial accuracy of 99.6 percent and an average 20 percent reduction in overall core administration expenses.”

“TriZetto has a strong track record in application management services,” said Ray. “Our customers enjoy more than 20 percent faster problem resolution, 20 percent to 30 percent faster implementations and upgrades, and 30 percent to 40 percent lower total cost of ownership – compared with healthcare customers that manage their applications in-house. I’m excited to help take the organization to the next level and continue to evolve our client-centric delivery model to increase operational excellence in the delivery of services.”

Beyond the numbers, Rekart and Ray see another, very strategic reason for healthcare payer and provider organizations to outsource the day-to-day management of information systems and administrative functions. They say outsourcing allows healthcare organizations to focus in-house resources on their core businesses and on meeting new challenges brought by healthcare reform – specifically, emerging models of care delivery, payment and distribution, and a growing consumer/retail market. According to Rekart and Ray, application outsourcing and business management services free healthcare organizations to focus entirely on meeting these challenges and growing their business, rather than on managing back-office functions.

Rekart brings some 20 years of healthcare industry experience both in the payer and provider markets. As executive vice president and East region president, he helped integrate the people, processes and technologies of Bravo Health into the HealthSpring organization. Rekart also served as executive vice president and chief operations officer at HealthSpring/BravoHealth and, earlier in his career, held executive leadership positions at UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare, CareFirst and Humana.

Ray was previously vice president of global operations for SunGard Availability Services, where he led the successful operational launch of SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud Services and drove significant improvement in uptime across 35 data centers in North America. At Inflow, Inc., a managed service data center provider acquired by SunGard, Ray was part of the leadership team that achieved 9.0 out of 10 in customer satisfaction for five years in a row. He served in increasing levels of responsibility in operations, sales, product engineering and product development.

About TriZetto

TriZetto provides world-class healthcare IT software and service solutions that drive administrative efficiency, improve the cost and quality of care, and increase payer and provider collaboration and connectivity. TriZetto solutions, many of which are patented or patent-pending, touch half the U.S. insured population and reach more than 21,000 physician practices. TriZetto’s payer offerings include enterprise and component software, application hosting and management, business process outsourcing services and consulting. Provider offerings, delivered through TriZetto’s Gateway EDI wholly owned subsidiary, include tools and services that monitor, catch and fix claims issues before they can impact a practice. TriZetto’s integrated payer-provider platform will enable deployment of promising new models of post-reform healthcare. For information, visit www.trizetto.com.

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