The Word & Brown Companies revolutionized the health insurance industry with groundbreaking services and products and is recognized today as the nation’s leader in providing innovations that simplify and streamline an employer’s administration of health care programs. Headquartered in Orange, Calif., The Word & Brown Companies is an expert in all aspects of individual and group benefits distribution and administration.

It began in 1984, when John M. Word III and Edward J. "Rusty" Brown, Jr. founded Word & Brown Insurance Administrators (Word & Brown® General Agency) to develop and market innovative sales tools and quoting systems that would assist brokers in delivering the best group health plan options to small businesses. Two years later, Word & Brown Insurance Administrators became the largest independent small group health distributor in the nation.

Then, in 1996, The Word & Brown Companies launched CaliforniaChoice®, which quickly became the nation’s leading employee-choice benefit program for employers with 2-50 employees. In 2004, CaliforniaChoice51+ was introduced for employers with 51-199 employees.

Both programs offer multiple health plans, employee-choice benefit plan designs through defined contribution, dental, vision, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), life, chiropractic and wellness options, and fall under the CHOICE Administrators® arm of The Word & Brown Companies. CHOICE Administrators ® also includes ontractor’s Choice® , Kaiser Permanente Choice Solution, and HSA California®.

The Word & Brown Companies also includes CONEXIS, the nation’s first outsourcing provider to offer benefits administration on a single, Web-based, fully-integrated system and the only benefits administrator to offer performance standards and guarantees to all clients regardless of company size; Quotit® Corporation, the leading Internet application service provider for the health insurance/employee benefits industry; and HealthCompare, which works with brokers and carriers to help individuals and families easily research, compare, buy, and enroll in the right health insurance plan at the right price.