CareCounsel to Utilize eHealth's Technology Platform When Providing Industry Leading Healthcare Assistance and Advocacy ServicesMOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Nov 04, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH), parent company of eHealthInsurance.com
(http://www.eHealthInsurance.com), today announced a technology
partnership with CareCounsel (http://www.carecounsel.com), a leading
provider of employer-sponsored healthcare assistance and advocacy
services.
"We've seen requests for individual health insurance options increase
by nearly 90 percent in the past year, which is why we decided it was
time to find a partner that could help us better meet our members'
needs in that area," said Larry Gelb, President and CEO of
CareCounsel. "When you start to add up the benefits of working with
eHealth -- the largest variety of plans and carriers available
online, licensed to sell insurance in every state, end-to-end
paperless automation of the enrollment process, low cost to adopt
their platform -- it didn't take us long to see that they were the
ideal partner for CareCounsel."
Through this partnership, eHealth will provide employees, retirees
and family members covered by CareCounsel with access to over 10,000
individual health insurance products from more than 180 brand-name
insurance companies nationwide. eHealth's simple, streamlined
implementation process will allow CareCounsel to quickly provide
integrated, efficient, and seamless access to its customers through
eHealth's state-of-the-art technology platform.
Many employers seeking a confidential health advocacy firm to answer
employees' health benefits questions and troubleshoot emergent health
plan issues turn to CareCounsel to provide employee-focused benefits
counseling. They provide employers with a single, experienced and
dedicated point-of-contact when their employees have questions about
their company's health care options.
By integrating the eHealthInsurance platform into their benefits
consultation, employees with questions about individual health
insurance products will be able to work with a CareCounsel specialist
to review their coverage options in the individual market, as well.
The CareCounsel members who are most likely to benefit from a
partnership with eHealth are pre-65 year-old retirees, recent college
graduates, the recently unemployed looking for alternatives to COBRA,
part-time workers whose benefits are not covered by their employer,
and employees researching cost-effective coverage alternatives for
their spouses and children.
"Among advocacy firms, CareCounsel has built a reputation for
providing excellent individual service to its customers and carefully
measuring satisfaction to make sure they're continually delivering
quality," said Bruce Telkamp, eHealth, Inc.'s Executive Vice
President of Business and Corporate Development. "It's now
open-enrollment season, which is typically a busy time of the year
for the health insurance industry. We're confident that our
partnership with CareCounsel, a company that shares our passion and
commitment to providing excellent quality and service, will be a
mutually beneficial partnership for years to come."
About eHealth
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) is the parent company of
eHealthInsurance, the nation's leading online source of health
insurance for individuals, families and small businesses. Through the
company's website, http://www.eHealthInsurance.com, consumers can get
quotes from leading health insurance carriers, compare plans side by
side, and apply for and purchase health insurance. eHealthInsurance
offers thousands of health plans underwritten by more than 180 of the
nation's leading health insurance companies. eHealthInsurance is
licensed to sell health insurance in all 50 states and the District
of Columbia, making it a functioning national health insurance
exchange. Through its eCommerce On-Demand solution (eOD),
www.ehealth.com/eOD, eHealth is also a leading provider of on-demand
e-commerce software services. eHealth's eOD platform provides a suite
of hosted solutions that enable health plan providers and resellers to
market and distribute products online. eHealth's eCommerce On-Demand
solution is currently available to health plan providers in all 50
states and the District of Columbia. eHealthInsurance and eHealth are
registered trademarks of eHealthInsurance Services, Inc.
About CareCounsel, LLC
CareCounsel was founded in 1997 to help
employers support their employees, retirees and their families as
they navigate healthcare. The company is headquartered in San Rafael,
California. More information is available at www.carecounsel.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains
forward-looking statements as defined within the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include statements regarding the
utilization and effectiveness of eHealth's technology platform and
the potential benefits of eHealth's relationship with CareCounsel.
These forward-looking statements are inherently subject to various
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from the statements made, including the attractiveness of
eHealth's technology platform; system failures, malfunctions, bugs or
capacity constraints; the performance, reliability and availability
of the platform and underlying network infrastructure; ecommerce
security risks; and insurance carrier system failure or process
breakdown. Other factors that could cause results to differ are
described in eHealth's most recent periodic report as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the investor
relations page of eHealth's website at www.ehealthinsurance.com and
on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov.
eHealth does not undertake any obligation to update any
forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results
or changes in expectations.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Nate Purpura
eHealth, Inc.
650-210-3115
nate.purpura@ehealth.com
Larry Gelb
CareCounsel, LLC
888-227-3334 ext. 101
LGelb@carecounsel.com
SOURCE: eHealth, Inc.
mailto:nate.purpura@ehealth.com
mailto:LGelb@carecounsel.com
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