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As the year ends and we look to 2006, many experts expect that more than three million new HSA accounts will be opened in the 12 months of 2006. Who will be the winners and losers in this race is open to conjecture. Our panel of experts will be speaking to us "live" from the Consumer Directed Healthcare Congress (CDHCC) and will talk to us first-hand about major players in the arena and offer up-to-the minute forecasts on the soaring rate of HSA adoptions.

Topic:	Outlook 2006: HSAs and HRAs -- Live Audio Conference from CDHCC Meeting
Speakers:	Moderated by JoAnn Laing, President of Information Strategies, Inc., featuring Bill Boyles, Editor of Consumer Driven Market Report and Don Mazzella, Editor of Healthcare & You
Date:	Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
Time:	1:00 p.m. Eastern
Location:	Your desk (Audio Conference dial-in instructions and session presentation will be emailed to attendees in advance of session)
Cost:	Individual Registration Fee: $129; Web Summit CD-ROM: $20 for attendees; $159 for non-attendees after the event. Corporate Site Licensing Available.
To Register:	https://www.managedcarestore.com/summit.htm or call 209.577.4888.

Our panel of experts have their own views on who will be the big players in this arena. They also have some suggestions on what is working in convincing consumers to purchase and use HSAs. They have been speaking to consumers, HSA providers and others linked into consumer directed healthcare (CDHC).

Their thoughts and ideas have proved to be very precise in the past and they are gathering data for a major year end presentation. The panelists will also provide a rundown on the newest product offerings and strategies by the nation's leading HSA insurers and custodians. This webseminar will also focus on the public and private backstage happenings, will offer an up-to-the minute forecast of the soaring rate of HSA adoptions featuring some of the nation's largest companies, and will look forward as to what will happen in 2006.

JoAnn Laing President, Information Strategies, Inc. Ms. Laing has global work and living experience with four public companies (Sara Lee, Olivetti, Chase and Citigroup), as well as running her own successful ecommerce-based businesses. As Chairman of Cybernautics, a premier Audience Development Company, she took the company from idea to profitability and its purchase/IPO (by U.S. Web). She is an undergraduate of Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management and holds an MBA from The Harvard Business School.

As President of Information Strategies, Inc., a marketing and information firm targeting small businesses, she has been studying the HSAs marketplace. The company, based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, has been regularly polling small firms about healthcare issues for more than three years.

William R. Boyles is the Editor & Publisher of Consumer Driven Market Report, an independent newsletter group financed by subscriptions, and a newly-launched industry web portal called HSAMarkets.com. The company also performs management consulting services to various health plan boards, senior company execs, and top industry trade associations.

Mr. Boyles started working in health care in 1971 as a medical claims review analyst for Blue Shield of Michigan, worked in the national offices of Blue Shield Association (Chicago), then earned an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Michigan (1973) with a specialty in health economics.

After graduate school he began covering the U.S. Congress (1976) for a leading newsletter chain with a focus on financing medical schools and teaching hospitals. He is a standing member of the U.S. House and Senate Periodical Press Galleries. In 1984 he founded the first national newsletter on the Health Maintenance Organization product, followed in 1989 by the first newsletter on PPOs, and in 2002 the first newsletter on consumer-driven health care. He is the author of numerous articles and commentaries in trade publications, and has been quoted in Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and other media.

Consumer Driven Market Report (Washington D.C.) was the first publication in the U.S. to write about consumer-driven health care and the CDH movement. Its readers include health insurance companies, large international consultants, and leading economists and actuaries. The focus is on research trends and expert opinions about emerging products and companies.

HSAMarkets.com is the first single-source news portal on the exploding market for health savings accounts. It is designed to replace all existing email news distributions from various groups, while providing revenues from syndication, advertising, data services, and specialized products on a fee basis

Donald P. Mazzella has more than 25 years experience in publishing and is an expert in small business operations having reported on and led firms in that sector. After reporting and editing stints with newspapers and wire services, he became a senior marketing executive with McGraw Hill's Standard & Poor's division. Subsequently, he was Editorial Director for a group of magazines operated by Thomson Publications. In recent years, Mr. Mazzella has successfully started and sold companies in the pre-press and small business arena while serving on the boards of public and private companies. Brought in by Essence Communications to help position the magazine, Income Opportunities, for sale, he won the National Press Club award for best consumer publication while expanding circulation and advertiser revenue. Mr. Mazzella holds a BA and MA in Journalism from NYU as well as an MBA from the same institution.

Register online at https://www.managedcarestore.com/summit.htm or call 209.577.4888 and you will receive instructions for logging in to the Audio Conference. If you have questions, please contact Patty Jamison at the Healthcare Web Summit Office at 209.577.4888 for more information. We look forward to your participation in this event!