Nashville, TN and Fort Worth, TX (August 28, 2006) -- Emdeon Business Services, a leading provider of revenue cycle management and clinical communication solutions that enable payers, providers and patients to improve healthcare business processes, and eRx Network, LLC, a premier retail pharmacy provider of electronic services, today announced a new relationship that will connect eRx pharmacy customers using PDX software with Emdeon's eprescribing network.

The new ePrescribing capability will enable more efficient communications between pharmacies and physicians and help improve pharmacy workflow, reduce errors and increase patient satisfaction. For Emdeon providers, the new relationship will expand the number of pharmacies in the Emdeon network and help physicians more easily create prescriptions, authorize refills, reduce errors and improve patient safety. It also provides physicians with flexibility as the Emdeon ePrescribing offering is accessible from virtually any web-enabled device.

"This new relationship expands the breadth of our eprescribing capabilities and the strength of the Emdeon pharmacy network in order to enable Emdeon's provider customers to more easily and efficiently write prescriptions, helping to improve patient safety," said George Lazenby, Executive Vice President, Emdeon Business Services.

eRx Pad, an ePrescribing service, supports NCPDP Script standards and has been providing e-Prescribing to the pharmacy industry for 10 years. eRx Pad® utilizes Bi-Directional connectivity to support its customer network comprised of pharmacy chains and independent community pharmacies. eRx Network maintains a secure, reliable and performance-oriented network for e-commerce applications to U.S. pharmacies.

About Emdeon

Emdeon (Nasdaq: HLTH) is a leading provider of business, technology and information solutions that transform both the financial and clinical aspects of healthcare delivery. At the core of Emdeon's vision is the commitment to connect providers, payers, employers, physicians and consumers in order to simplify business processes, to provide actionable knowledge at the right time and place and to improve healthcare quality.

Emdeon Business Services provides revenue cycle management and clinical communication solutions that enable payers, providers and patients to improve healthcare business processes. Emdeon Practice Services provides physician practice management and electronic health record software and services that increase practice efficiency and enhance patient care.

For more information about Emdeon, call toll free 1-888-545-6127 or visit www.emdeon.com

About eRx Network

eRx Network is a premier provider to the U.S. pharmacy industry of a secure, reliable and performance oriented network for e-commerce applications. eRx provides a number of productivity enhancing services including online and Internet switching of third party claims, value proven pre- and post- edit services, claims reconciliation services, electronic prescribing solutions, Medicare/Medicaid DME billing, and Medicare eligibility verification.

For more information about eRx Network, call toll free 1-866-379-6389 to contact us or visit www.erxnetwork.com.