SXC
HEALTH SOLUTIONS’ $6.9 MILLION CONTRACT AWARD WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS, HEALTH ADMINISTRATION CENTER, IS UPHELD
Lisle,
Illinois, July 13, 2007, SXC Health Solutions, Inc. (“SXC” or the
“Company”) (NASDAQ: SXCI, TSX: SXC), a leading provider of pharmacy benefits
management services, announces that the Government Accountability Office
has
upheld the decision made by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Health
Administration Center in Denver, Colorado, to award a multi-year PBM and
pharmacy network services contract to the Company. The agreement has a provision
for one year base period term and options that, if all are exercised, would
extend the contract to 60 months in length and generate approximately $6.9
million in revenue over that term.
On
February 28, 2007, SXC announced that it had been awarded a contract to provide
the HAC with a suite of PBM solutions to manage pharmacy benefit transactions
for more than 250,000 government healthcare beneficiaries. On March 9, 2007,
a
protest related to the agreement was filed with the GAO by a competitor who
was
unsuccessful in their bid for the contract. The GAO rejected this competitor’s
protest and upheld the HAC decision to award the contract to SXC. SXC
expects to complete implementation of the agreement during the third or fourth
quarter of 2007.
Under
terms of the agreement, SXC will provide PBM services that include program
administration, claims transactions processing, Drug Utilization Review,
beneficiary and pharmacy call centers, retail pharmacy network administration,
Medicare Part D claims transactions support, and ad hoc and standard reporting
systems. Additional services planned for future phases of the
contract may include formulary and rebate management support, and clinical
support as requested.
"We
are
pleased to have had this matter resolved in our favor,” said Gordon Glenn,
Chairman and CEO of SXC Health Solutions, Inc. “We look forward to
launching our services with the HAC to help support management of their
prescription drug program and to enhance the overall healthcare experience
of
the beneficiaries in their health plans.”
About
SXC Health Solutions
SXC
Health Solutions, Inc. (SXC) is a leading provider of pharmacy benefits
management (PBM) services and healthcare IT solutions to the healthcare benefits
management industry. The Company's product offerings and solutions combine
a
wide range of software applications, application service provider (ASP)
processing services and professional services, designed for many of the largest
organizations in the pharmaceutical supply chain, such as Federal, provincial,
and, state and local governments, pharmacy benefit managers, managed care
organizations, retail pharmacy chains and other healthcare intermediaries.
SXC
is based in Lisle, Illinois with locations in; Scottsdale, Arizona; Warminster,
Pennsylvania; Alpharetta, Georgia; Milton, Ontario and Victoria, British
Columbia. For more information please visit www.sxc.com.
Forward-Looking
Statements
Certain
statements included herein, including those that express management's
expectations or estimates of our future performance, constitute "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of applicable securities
laws. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a
number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by
management at this time, are inherently subject to significant business,
economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. We
caution that such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other risks that may cause our actual financial results,
performance, or achievements to be materially different from our estimated
future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by those
forward-looking statements. Numerous factors could cause actual
results to differ materially

from
those in the forward-looking statements, including without limitation,
our ability to achieve increased market acceptance for our product
offerings and penetrate new markets; consolidation in the healthcare industry;
the existence of undetected errors or similar problems in our software products;
our ability to identify and complete acquisitions, manage our growth and
integrate acquisitions; our ability to compete successfully; potential liability
for the use of incorrect or incomplete data; the length of the sales cycle
for
our healthcare software solutions; interruption of our operations due to
outside
sources; our dependence on key customers; maintaining our intellectual property
rights and litigation involving intellectual property rights; our ability
to
obtain, use or successfully integrate third-party licensed technology;
compliance with existing laws, regulations and industry initiatives and future
change in laws or regulations in the healthcare industry; breach of our security
by third parties; our dependence on the expertise of our key personnel; our
access to sufficient capital to fund our future requirements; and potential
write-offs of goodwill or other intangible assets. This list
is not
exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of our forward-looking
statements. Investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on
forward-looking statements. All subsequent written and oral
forward-looking statements attributable to SXC or persons acting on our behalf
are expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice. We disclaim
any intent or obligation to update publicly these forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise. Risks and uncertainties about our business are more
fully discussed in our Annual Information Form.
Certain
of the assumptions made in preparing forward-looking information and
management’s expectations include: maintenance of our existing customers and
contracts, our ability to market our products successfully to anticipated
customers, the impact of increasing competition, the growth of prescription
drug
utilization rates at predicted levels, the retention of our key personnel,
our
customers continuing to process transactions at historical levels, that our
systems will not be interrupted for any significant period of time, that
our
products will perform free of major errors, our ability to obtain financing
on
acceptable terms and that there will be no significant changes in the regulation
of our business.
For
more information, please contact:
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Jeff
Park
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Dave
Mason
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Susan
Noonan
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Judith
Sylk-Siegel
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Chief
Financial Officer
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Investor
Relations
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Investor
Relations - U.S.
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Media
Contact
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SXC
Health Solutions, Inc.
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The
Equicom Group Inc.
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The
SAN Group, LLC
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Rx
Communications Group
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Tel:
(630) 577-3206
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416-815-0700
ext. 237
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(212)
966-3650
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(917)
322-2164
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investors@sxc.com
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dmason@equicomgroup.com
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susan@sanoonan.com
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jsylksiegel@rxir.com
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