Extend Health Raises $15 Million in Series B Funding
Company also announces Name Change and Board of Advisors
Burlingame, CA, August 9, 2007 --- Extend Health, Inc., a leading
provider of defined contribution health care solutions to Fortune 500 corporations,
today announced that it has secured $15 million of Series B funding led by New York-based
Psilos Group Managers. Psilos was joined by Extend Health's existing investor, Revolution
Health Group of Washington, D.C. Extend Health will use the funds to better serve
its growing corporate customer base, which includes Chrysler, Federal Express, IBM,
GE, The Gap, Avon and dozens of other major corporations.
In conjunction with the financing, the company has changed its name to Extend Health,
Inc. to better reflect the breadth of programs available to its clients, their employees
and retirees. The company was previously known as Extend Benefits Group, LLC.
The company also today announced a new board of advisors which includes leaders
in health care, finance, accounting and government service. Advisory board members
include Dr. Mark McClellan, former head of the Center for Medicare Services and
the Food and Drug Administration, Dick Gephardt, former Majority Leader of the United
States House of Representatives; Chuck Bowsher, former head of the U.S. General
Accounting Office and Comptroller General of the United States; Ed Mazur, former
State Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Virginia and a former member of the Government
Accounting Standards Board; and Alain Enthoven, currently a Professor of Public
and Private Management (Emeritus), at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
"We are pleased to announce the closing of our Series B round and welcome two of
Psilos' founding partners, Dr. Albert Waxman and Stephen Krupa, to Extend's board
of directors," said Bryce Williams, Extend Health's chief executive officer. "Extend
Health had a choice of investment partners, but chose Psilos because of its superior
track record in health care services and its reputation for working with entrepreneurial
teams to build substantial value over time."
"We welcome Psilos as an investor in Extend Health and have reinvested in this round
because of the company's substantial traction in providing high-quality health insurance
plans for the employees and retirees of dozens of major American corporations,"
said Steve Case, Revolution Health chairman and chief executive officer. "Revolution
looks forward to an ongoing role in helping Extend Health create innovative and
compelling coverage solutions for its clients."
"We are excited about the investment in Extend Health, its management team and its
core value proposition of bringing highly personalized health insurance options
to employees who would otherwise be unable to participate in company-sponsored health
plans, as well as retirees who do not typically have the ability to personalize
a plan to their needs," said Al Waxman, Psilos co-founder and senior managing member.
About Extend Health
Extend Health, Inc. is leading the transformation of employer-sponsored health insurance
from a "one-size-fits-all" group solution to an individualized solution. Working
with a wide variety of national and regional health insurance companies, Extend
Health enables corporations to define the cost of their health insurance programs
and significantly reduce their administrative responsibilities. Leveraging new developments
in the use of tax free dollars, including U.S. Treasury approved Health Reimbursement
Arrangements, Extend Health offers two core programs -- ExtendRetiree and ExtendAccess.
Available in all 50 states, ExtendRetiree allows employers to replace legacy group
retirement plans for those 65 and older with a defined contribution alternative.
Helping retirees maximize the use of an employer contribution, ExtendRetiree allows
each retiree to select the plan that best fits his or her needs from a wide range
of individual Medigap, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans. This highly
personalized selection process is enabled via web-based tools and expert benefits
assistance from Extend Health's Salt Lake City-based customer care facility. The
ExtendRetiree program also allows corporations, unions and government entities to
comply with recent FASB/GASB directives with regard to under-funded or currently
unreported retiree health care obligations.
ExtendAccess provides affordable medical plan options to employees and independent
contractors who are ineligible for company sponsored group health plans. Since 2006,
Extend Health has offered an exclusive variation of the ExtendAccess program to
members of the H.R. Policy Association under the National Health Access 2007 brand
at www.nationalhealthaccess.com.
For more information, please visit www.extendhealth.com
About Revolution Health
Revolution Health Group LLC was created by AOL Co-Founder Steve Case to create products
and services that empower people by putting them at the center of the health system.
The cornerstone of the company is RevolutionHealth.com, a free consumer health and
medical web site that marries expert content and online tools with the power of
social networking. Revolution Health also offers premium services that enable companies
to provide health content and customized online tools to their employees, an insurance
marketplace and CarePages (www.carepages.com), the leading service that enables
communication among family and friends when someone is receiving care. For more
information, please go to
http://www.RevolutionHealth.com.
About Psilos
Psilos Group is a successful healthcare private equity firm founded in 1998. With
approximately $450 million under management, Psilos focuses its investments across
the healthcare services, healthcare information technology, and medical device &
instrumentation sectors. Psilos invests nationwide in businesses that are poised
to create enduring market value by fundamentally improving the U.S. healthcare system.
Psilos' portfolio companies are sustainable and high value businesses that have
a demonstrated ability to reduce the costs of healthcare delivery, improve clinical
quality and advance the alignment of payer, patient and provider incentives. Psilos
has offices in New York, the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Public Relations Contacts:
For Extend Health:
Ms. Alice Fixx
(212) 860-8463
alicefixx@aol.com
For Revolution Health:
Brad Burns
(202) 776-1412
Brad.Burns@revolution.com
For Psilos Group:
Stephen Krupa
(212) 242-8844
Contact us
Individuals & families
Find the right health plan with help from an experienced benefit advisor:
1-866-322-2824(TTY: 1-866-508-5123)
Mon.-Fri. 9 am to 9 pm Eastern
Businesses
Learn more about defined contribution solutions to managing health care costs
1-888-612-8210Mon.-Fri. 9 am to 9 pm Eastern
Media Contacts
For more information, please contact our communications department.
media@extendhealth.com
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