NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Emdeon Inc., a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, today announced its intention to re-price its existing senior secured credit facilities to benefit from current market interest rates and borrow $60 million of additional term loans for general corporate purposes, including potential acquisitions.

Emdeon anticipates the transactions to be completed in April. However, there can be no assurance that Emdeon will be able to complete such transactions, which are subject to market and other customary conditions.

About Emdeon

Emdeon is a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, connecting payers, providers and patients in the U.S. healthcare system.  Emdeon's offerings integrate and automate key business and administrative functions of its payer and provider customers throughout the patient encounter.  Through the use of Emdeon's comprehensive suite of solutions, which are designed to easily integrate with existing technology infrastructures, customers are able to improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase cash flow and more efficiently manage the complex revenue and payment cycle and clinical information exchange processes.  For more information, visit www.emdeon.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements made in this press release that express Emdeon's or management's intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations or predictions of future events are forward-looking statements.  These statements often include words such as "may," "will," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate" or similar expressions.  Forward-looking statements may include information concerning the proposed transactions and Emdeon's possible or assumed future results of operations, including descriptions of Emdeon's revenues, profitability, outlook and overall business strategy.  You should not place undue reliance on these statements because they are subject to numerous uncertainties and factors relating to the proposed transactions and Emdeon's operations and business environment, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond Emdeon's control.  Although Emdeon believes that these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, you should be aware that many factors could affect Emdeon's actual financial results or results of operations and could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.  Such factors related to Emdeon's actual financial results or results of operations include:  effects of competition, including competition from entities that are customers for certain of Emdeon's solutions; Emdeon's ability to maintain relationships with its customers and channel partners; Emdeon's ability to effectively cross-sell its solutions to existing customers and to continue to generate revenue and maintain profitability by developing or acquiring and successfully deploying new or updated solutions; pricing pressures on Emdeon's solutions; the anticipated benefits from acquisitions not being fully realized or not being realized within the expected time frames; and general economic, business or regulatory conditions affecting the healthcare information technology and services industries; as well as the other risks discussed in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections and elsewhere in Emdeon's Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2011, as well as any public reports, press releases, filings or other public statements made by Emdeon.

You should keep in mind that any forward-looking statement made by Emdeon herein, or elsewhere, speaks only as of the date on which made. Emdeon expressly disclaims any intent, obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking statements made herein to reflect any change in Emdeon's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based.  

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