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On October 2, 2006, DST Systems completed its acquisition of Amisys Synertech, Inc. (ASI) through ASI's merger with a wholly owned subsidiary of DST Health Solutions, Inc. This press release was distributed by ASI prior to that date.

Responding to Employer Demand for Increased Quality and Transparency, ASI and Subimo Deliver New Consumer-Directed Healthcare Solutions

Care Choices, Group Health Cooperative Allowing Employers to Offer More Choice and Control Over Employee Healthcare

ROCKVILLE, MD, and CHICAGO, IL, (March 8, 2006) – ASI, the nation’s leading consumer-directed healthcare solutions provider and Subimo, the recognized leader in web-based, healthcare decision-support systems are deploying new tools to address the rapidly growing consumer-driven healthcare market. ASI's strategic alliance with Subimo allows employers to contain rising costs and health plans to round out their more flexible and affordable products while providing greater overall transparency regarding the cost and quality of care.

Two leading health plans, Care Choices and Group Health Cooperative, have announced they are leveraging ASI’s industry-leading, consumer-directed healthcare solutions that provide access to Subimo's Healthcare Advisor™ suite. ASI’s Advanced Consumer-Directed Solution enables employees and health plan members to effectively manage their healthcare dollars by creating a customized framework for decision-making regarding complex situations and medical issues.

“Care Choices leveraged the Subimo decision support tools to complement our CDH offering with ASI. We strategically did this to make sure members had the right tools in hand to make better informed decisions in managing their new CDH benefits,” said Laurie Westfall, chief operations officer, Care Choices.

ASI's solutions enable health plans to connect directly to their members by providing secure and encrypted on-line access to user-friendly information from Subimo's evidenced-based healthcare data. Subimo’s products provide employees with easy-to-understand, drug decision guides for chronic, high-cost conditions, as well as an objective compilation of information regarding medical conditions, common procedures, costs of those services, potential complications and risks, along with hospital and physician reputations and experience—all of which enable members to make knowledgeable decisions about their individual health options.

“Engaging consumers in the healthcare decision-making process is essential to achieving program success. Informed consumers make more cost-effective purchasing decisions,” said Craig Combs, ASI’s senior vice president of business development. “The integrated solution offered by ASI and Subimo empowers consumerism and enables organizations to pursue their CDH strategies with confidence and speed."

“Employers are offering new consumer-driven healthcare plans as a way of managing their healthcare expenditures while still offering employees a high level of care,” said Ann Mond Johnson, president of Subimo. “The availability of relevant information on healthcare quality and cost in order to make more informed decisions is critical to success of these CDH benefits.”

ASI and Subimo announced a formal alliance in March 2005 to provide a comprehensive decision-support portfolio to better enable healthcare consumerism by giving employees choice, convenience, and control over their healthcare.

About Subimo
Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Subimo, LLC licenses an award-winning suite of decision tools, which provide a unique combination of data, content, personalized and interactive models, along with a variety of online wellness tools, so consumers can easily manage and track their personal health status, select insurance coverage, fund their tax-preferred accounts, determine costs for medical services, and select hospitals, drugs, and physicians. Everyone saves money when consumers have better information and can make better choices. Nearly 75 million Americans have access to Subimo's tools through their insurance company or employer. For more information, visit http://www.subimo.com or call
888-SUBIMO-1.

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