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ppoNEXT Participates in Annual AHIP Conference; Asks Attendees, "What's NEXT?"

(Long Beach, California May 27, 2005) – ppoNEXT announced today plans to participate in Institute 2005, the annual meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). This year's conference will be held at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 8 – 10, 2005.

Sponsored annually by AHIP, the conference covers the most important topics in the Health Insurance and Managed Care industry. This year's topics include: Industry Trends, Consumer Choice and Market Forces, IT Advancements and many others.

Commenting on ppoNEXT's objectives for this year's conference, Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Mark Heinemeyer affirmed, "We hope to catch a glimpse of the future of managed care through the eyes of our current and future clients. Only through such collaborative discovery can we develop the proper vision to constantly greet our clients’ emerging concerns with elegant solutions."

ppoNEXT will also use this event to showcase its strategic endeavors with leading healthcare management organizations. "We consistently explore fresh alliance opportunities through which we believe ppoNEXT can significantly enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery."

About ppoNEXT:

Founded in 1999, ppoNEXT is a leading provider of health network services aimed at assisting companies, and therefore, consumers with managing the spiraling cost of healthcare by actively participating in Consumer Driven Healthcare initiatives. These initiatives hold great promise as mechanisms to aid employers in gaining control over the cost of employee health benefits. ppoNEXT is dedicated to providing services that are like-minded, realizing that companies who meet the challenges faced by opening the healthcare marketplace will be at the forefront of delivering on that promise. Based in Long Beach, California, ppoNEXT offers clients access to over 450,000 physicians, 3,700 hospitals, and thousands of leading ancillary care providers nationwide. ppoNEXT serves self-funded employers, third party administrators, insurance carriers, HMOs, and bill review firms. Through its subsidiary, Health Care Evaluation, ppoNEXT offers disease management, utilization management and care management services.

For more information about ppoNEXT, please contact:

Etta Jones
Corporate Marketing
214.267.3394