CPEhr Announces 2011 Health Insurance Renewal Rates 10 Percent Below

Regional Average

Los Angeles Human Resources firm CPEhr announces 2011 HMO group insurance premiums
substantially below regional average

Los Angeles, CA, March 15, 2011 --(PR.com)-- CPEhr, a leading California Professional Employer
Organization (PEO), released its 2011 group insurance renewal rates with Anthem Blue Cross of
California. HMO rates fall more than 10 percent below the regional average for comparable plans.

CPEhr offers top tier small business medical insurance plans to its PEO clients and currently provides
insurance coverage to thousands of employees throughout California. CPEhr's Benefits Manager, Haig
Hagopian, conducted a detailed analysis of health insurance plans offered by carriers in the Southern
California region. The analysis revealed that the average premium across comparable HMO plans was
10.3 percent lower than HMOs offered by the other carriers. More than half of California employees who
take insurance access their health care through an HMO.

“CPEhr applies solid health risk management techniques to keep the overall premiums down as much as
possible,” explains Hagopian. “This includes working with carriers to help those with chronic conditions
manage their illnesses more effectively. Furthermore, Anthem Blue Cross has done an exceptional job
with providing our groups with a strong network, rich plan features and lower out of pocket costs.”

In addition to offering HMO plans, CPEhr provides its clients a range of PPOs and qualified
high-deductible health plans (HDHP), alongside a wide range of voluntary benefits and perks including
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), dental, vision, life, disability and
limited medical policies. Hagopian and the CPEhr Benefits Department review plan options with clients
and generate creative solutions to mitigate increasing health insurance costs. They also administer the
plans and negotiate renewals directly with the carriers to further contain the rates.

“We analyze the types of benefit features that are most helpful to our groups and make sure that our plan
designs are a good fit for their employees,” says Hagopian. “To obtain the right to offer Anthem, CPEhr
established a sophisticated underwriting and health management infrastructure, which no other PEO has
managed to do at this time. As a result, we are the only PEO that has been approved by Anthem Blue
Cross.”

Clients clearly see the value in CPEhr's plans and services, since enrollment has increased seven percent
over the past two years, despite state-wide increases.

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CPE HR, Inc.
Ari Rosenstein
877-842-4987
ari@cpehr.com
www.cpehr.com
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