Investors Business Daily interviewed HealthSpring President Mike Mirt about his management team's decision making process. Read it here.

"For many years now, we have had great success with our Web Service based solutions – offering real time repricing of our clients medical bills. Our new expansion to the Cloud is the next evolution of our cutting edge capabilities," according to Christian Puryear, CIO of Prime Health Services. "The extraordinary capacity of the Windows Azure environment made the Microsoft solution a natural choice for us."

“Prime Health Services has taken the next evolutionary step in its growth by acquiring majority interest in Applied Metrics. This acquisition reaffirms Prime Health’s commitment to providing the market with a quality PPO network based on measurable medical outcome data,” said Brian A. Sharp, Prime Health's president and CEO. “Prime’s approach of customizing PPO solutions for our clients now will include the ability to offer them providers with demonstrated patient outcomes, and thus a better ability to control costs.”

“I know that Todd will do an excellent job in overseeing our custom contracting efforts for our clients that choose this service as well as for the continued growth of our broad based PPO,” said Brian A. Sharp, CEO of Prime Health Services.