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Health Administration Services Boosts Team With Senior Sales Executive


- Experienced benefits marketing professional brings portfolio of success -

March 24, 2006 (HOUSTON, TX)…Health Administration Services (HAS), one of Texas’s largest third-party administrators of health benefits services, recently announced that Vicki McLeod joined the company as a senior sales executive responsible. McLeod is responsible for helping build relationships with benefits brokers in the Dallas Fort-Worth and North Texas areas.

Prior to joining HAS, McLeod served as a regional sales manager for USNow where she generated nearly $2 million in new business for the managed limited benefits plan company. She also has worked as a health benefits broker marketing health, dental, vision, life, and third-party administration services to corporations. Before that, she marketed a third-party administrator over a 10-year period from its start-up operations through its growth into a highly respected force in the brokerage community.

“Vicki brings practical experience from both the benefits management and health broker sides of the industry,” said Don Benson, CEO for HAS. “She understands the business of third-party administration as well as what brokers are seeking in a strategic and mutually beneficial partnership with a company like Health Administration Services, which will be extremely valuable to HAS.”

McLeod graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from the University of Texas at Dallas.She has been an active member of the Texas Professional Benefits Administrators Association for nearly a decade and she is a Southwest Regional Advisory Board Member for the Self Insurance Institute of America. She also has served on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Association of Health Underwriters.

A photo of Ms. McLeod is available upon request.

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About Health Administration Services
Founded in 1984, H.A.S. assists employers across Texas manage their self-funded health plans more effectively and more cost-efficiently. H.A.S. serves more than 76,000 people and nearly 60 clients ranging from small, private companies to large corporations, including manufacturers, school districts, political subdivisions, service firms and hospitals.



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