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Healthcare Self-Management Easier with GPA's Improved HealthWatch™ Solutions
The Container Store takes advantage of integrated online wellness tools to help employees stay healthier; maintain lower healthcare costs

December 8, 2007 (Dallas, TX) Group & Pension Administrators, Inc., (GPA) one of the largest independently owned benefit plan administrators in the Southwestern United States, today announced that it has bolstered its HealthWatch™ solution with BeWell^SM, an integrated wellness program including tools, resources, reporting and incentives. Designed to better manage the balance between care and cost, BeWell enables employers with large employee populations to improve their health accountability, overall health and productivity levels, while improving healthcare cost management. The Container Store, the nation's leading retailer of storage and organization products, is GPA's first client to take advantage of BeWell.

"We are very proud that GPA has selected The Container Store to launch the program," said Renée Morris, Benefit Manager for The Container Store. "We have enjoyed a wonderful relationship with GPA as our benefit plan administrator over the last several years, and we are looking forward to elevating our three-year-old "1 Equals 3 ... It's All About Me" wellness program to the next level through this collaboration."

The Container Store is one of many leading employers that are implementing incentive-based wellness programs to help employees make more informed decisions, be healthier and enjoy lower healthcare costs. In fact, according to a CBS News report, studies show $3 in healthcare savings for every $1 spent on wellness.

"Less than 3% of the healthcare dollar is spent on prevention while 70% of healthcare costs are related to preventable, chronic conditions caused by individual lifestyle choices," said Kathy Enochs, COO. "Many health problems can be avoided if employees are provided with better and customized information and tools to better take care of themselves and their health finances."

Earlier this year GPA partnered with HealthMedia, a global leader in scalable behavior change interventions with outcomes, to create BeWell. BeWell features online health risk assessments (HRAs), onsite screenings, electronic health information and tools, lifestyle management interventions and incentive management programs.

As the first GPA client to take advantage of BeWell, Container Store employees will participate in HRAs and follow-up interventions for weight management and physical activity, nutrition improvement, stress management and smoking cessation. The web-based interventions also include numerous tools and resources such as a medical library, recipes, goal-setting tools, and iPod-enabled exercise and relaxation videos.

About Group & Pension Administrators, Inc.
Group & Pension Administrators, Inc. (GPA) is the largest independently owned third-party administrator (TPA) in the Southwest, providing highest-quality and custom healthcare benefit management solutions to self-insured employers. For 40 years, GPA has combined its value of service excellence with a commitment to clients, employing industry-leading technology, tools and – above all – "high-touch" patient care to deliver the healthiest employees and the "healthiest" bottom line. For more information, visit gpatpa.com.

About GPA's HealthWatch™ – Medical Management Solutions
HealthWatch is powered by advanced data analytic tools that enable employers to make informed, accurate healthcare decisions. With HealthWatch, GPA helps prevent 70% of chronic conditions and related healthcare costs. Services include BeWell^SM Programs, Disease Management, Case Management, Utilization Review and Maternity Management.

About HealthMedia Inc.
HealthMedia, Inc. is the global leader in scalable behavior change interventions with outcomes. HealthMedia's proven outcomes increase compliance, reduce medical utilization, and increase productivity – boosting profitability for health plans, employers, pharmaceutical companies, and behavioral health organizations. A fusion of their own unique technology and proven behavioral science, HealthMedia delivers individually tailored behavior change interventions for health and wellness, disease management, behavioral health, and medication compliance. Clients include Kaiser Permanente, UPS, Cleveland Clinic, Johnson & Johnson, GSK, and eight Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations across the United States. HealthMedia partners include APS Healthcare, Corphealth, Health Dialog, Wellsource, and SHPS. For more information visit www.healthmedia.com.

About The Container Store
The Container Store is the nation's leading retailer of storage and organization products, featuring more than 10,000 innovative products designed to help customers save space and time. With 34 locations across the U.S., the Container store has been named to Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work" for the past eight years. For more information visit www.thecontainerstore.com.

Contact Information:

Kathy Enochs
GPA
972.744.2445

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