DST Health Solutions Offers Enhanced Member Communications Services for Health Plans

Comprehensive Printing and Fulfillment Services Help Healthcare Payers Expand Consumer Directed Healthcare Programs

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 5, 2006- DST Health Solutions, Inc. today announced that it has enhanced its current printing and fulfillment offerings for health plans that want to communicate more effectively with their members. This comprehensive service combines state-of-the-art printing and workflow technologies to better serve healthcare payers as they expand their consumer-directed healthcare programs.

DST Health Solutions provides administration technology and outsourcing services to more than 100 health plans nationwide. Its automated printing and mailing facility annually generates millions of explanations of benefits, explanations of payments, checks, premium bills, member ID cards, welcome kits, enrollment kits, and correspondence with a fraction of the workforce typically required for large-scale member communications programs. DST Health Solutions can design, produce, assemble and distribute member communications so health plans can focus on their core business.

DST Health Solutions' new member communications services will enable clients to reduce the storage, production and technology costs associated with printing and mailing. In addition, clients will enhance quality with DST Health Solutions' automated fulfillment processes and quality assurance processes. Health plans also can facilitate cross-selling and up-selling by adding customized, rules-based messaging to member communications. The service can be integrated with a plan's core claims administration system.

"Our extensive printing and fulfillment services, along with our new suite of PowerSolutionsT software, help position us as a single source for comprehensive health plan administration technology, services and support," said Steve Sabino, president of DST Health Solutions. "This service can be provided to health plans, large or small."

DST Health Solutions has expanded its printing and fulfillment services to its health plan clients by adopting the processes, procedures and platform developed by DST Output, a sister company and subsidiary of DST Systems, Inc. DST Output produces more than 2.1 billion customer communications a year, including healthcare member communications, and is the largest third-party First Class mailer in the United States.

About DST Health Solutions, Inc.
DST Health Solutions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of DST Systems, Inc., delivers applications and outsourcing services that help health plans, TPAs and physician practices improve efficiency, reduce operational costs, increase speed to market and improve customer service and care management. DST Health Solutions' enterprise applications, and ASP and BPO services support 340 healthcare clients, representing 30 million covered lives, 230 million health plan claims and 30 million physician business transactions annually. For more information about DST Health Solutions, visit www.dsthealthsolutions.com .

About DST Output
DST Output, a wholly owned subsidiary of DST Systems, Inc., provides integrated print and electronic communications for the brokerage, banking, mutual fund, insurance, communications and healthcare industries. As the largest third-party First-Class mailer in the United States , DST Output produces more than 2.1 billion customer communications a year from its state-of-the-art facilities in North America . IndustryWeek magazine has included one of those facilities in its list of "Top Ten Best Plants in North America " in 2002. Two of its facilities have now received certification for Mail Preparation Total Quality Management from the U.S. Postal Service and are designated as distinguished Quality Mailing Partners of the USPS. For more information visit www.dstoutput.com .

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