National Health Partners, Inc. (NHPR) is a national healthcare savings organization that provides discount healthcare membership programs to uninsured and underinsured people through a national healthcare savings network called “CARExpress.” CARExpress is one of the largest networks of hospitals, doctors, dentists, pharmacists and other healthcare providers in the country and is comprised of over 1,000,000 medical professionals that belong to such PPOs as CareMark and Aetna. The company’s primary target customer group is the 47 million Americans who have no health insurance of any kind. The company’s secondary target customer group includes the millions of Americans who lack complete health insurance coverage. The company is headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

National Health Partners, Inc. (NHPR), a leading provider of unique discount healthcare membership programs, announced that it has entered into agreement with a major Hispanic marketing group for the sale of its CARExpress programs. The company also sees growth in new sales of memberships of more than 300% thru the remainder of the year.

Under the new agreement, this national Hispanic marketing group will be promoting the company’s CARExpress discount healthcare membership program to Hispanic communities located across the United States, with particular focus on cities and regions containing a large number of Hispanics. With the previously announced plans to increase monthly sales by 75% with its newest and most successful marketing partner, the company now expects sales of new members to grow more than 300% thru the remainder of the year.

Managed care plan is a variety of techniques that is designed to help reduce the cost of providing improved quality of care and health benefits to organizations. The techniques that may be used are as follow: providing economic incentives for physicians; increase in the cost of beneficiary sharing; establishing cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery, intensifying management of high-cost health care cases and controlling inpatient admissions and their length of stay.

Please visit its website at www.nationalhealthpartners.com

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Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:EIHI) recently announced that A.M. Best Company has affirmed its A (Excellent) financial strength rating and stable outlook for subsidiary Eastern Alliance Insurance Group (”EAIG”), a domestic casualty insurance group specializing in workers’ compensation. “A.M. Best’s affirmation of the A (Excellent) rating is indicative of our continued excellent operational and financial results and strong balance sheet during a difficult insurance market and economic cycle,” said Michael Boguski, President and Chief Executive Officer of EIHI. “I was particularly pleased with A.M. Best’s recognition of our outperformance of the workers’ compensation industry as a whole.”

Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers workers compensation and group benefits insurance and reinsurance products in the United States.

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Orbotech Ltd. (Nasdaq:ORBK) recently announced that it has completed its public offering of 7,705,000 ordinary shares (the “Offering”) at a price of $12.50 per share. The Offering included 1,005,000 ordinary shares sold pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option. The net proceeds from the Offering after the underwriting discount and other offering expenses were approximately $91.5 million. The Company plans to use the net proceeds of the Offering for general corporate purposes.

Orbotech Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and service of production solutions for specialized applications in the supply chain of the electronics industry worldwide.