AMENDMENT TO
AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
This Amendment to
the Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (this
“Amendment”) by and between HLTH Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Charles Mele
(“Executive”) is effective as of December 16,
2008.
WHEREAS, Executive
and the Company (formerly known as Emdeon Corporation) are parties
to an Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of
February 1, 2006 (the “Employment Agreement”);
and
WHEREAS, Executive
and the Company desire to amend the Employment Agreement to comply
with final regulations issued under Section 409A of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the mutual covenants in this Amendment, the
parties agree that the Agreement is amended as set forth
below:
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1.
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Section 5.2(a) is amended by
adding the following sentences to the end thereof:
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“The payments and benefits
under this Section 5.2 is subject to Section 5.4. The timing
of payments and benefits under this Section 5.2 is subject to
Section 5.9 and Section 5.10 below.”
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2.
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Section 5.3(a)(i)-(iii) is
amended in its entirety to read as follows (for the sake of
clarity, subsections (iv)-(vi) and the proviso at the end thereof
are unchanged by this Amendment):
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“(a) The
Employment Period may be terminated at any time by the Company
without Cause. If the Company terminates the Employment Period
without Cause, the Company shall have the following obligations to
Executive subject to Section 5.3(c):
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(i)
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A
continuation of the Base Salary for a period (the “Severance
Period”) commencing on the date of termination and ending on
the third anniversary of the date of termination.
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(ii)
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Executive shall be eligible to
continue to participate during the Severance Period, on the same
terms and conditions that would have applied had he remained in the
employ of the Company during the Severance Period, in all medical,
vision, dental and life insurance plans provided to Executive
pursuant to Section 2.2 at the time of such termination and
which are provided by the Company to its
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employees following the date of
termination (“Welfare Plans”). With respect to any
continuation of Executive’s insurance coverage under this
Section 5.3(a)(ii), the Company may require Executive to elect
“COBRA,” and, in such case, the Company will pay that
portion of the COBRA premium that the Company pays for active
employees with the same coverage for the period that Executive is
eligible for COBRA. In lieu of continued participation in the
Company’s disability insurance plan, the Company shall make
three lump sum payments to Executive, each of which to be in an
amount equal to the greater of two times the annualized cost that
the Company had paid for Executive’s disability insurance
during the year in which the termination occurs and $10,000, for
each year during the Severance Period; provided that any subsequent
payments that would have been due will cease upon Executive
becoming eligible for disability payments with a subsequent
employer. The first payment shall be made on the Starting Date (as
defined below), but subject to Section 5.3(c), and the second and
third payments shall be made (if due) within 30 days after the
first and second anniversaries of the date of
termination.
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(iii)
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(A) If the termination of
Executive’s employment occurs after the completion of the
Company’s fiscal year, but prior to the payment of the bonus
for that year contemplated by Section 2.6, Executive shall be
entitled to receive the bonus otherwise payable in accordance with
such Section (if any) at such time as bonuses are paid generally to
executive officers for such year (but in no event later than
March 15 of the year following the year for which the bonus is
payable); (B) payment by the Company to Executive of a bonus for
the fiscal year in which termination of employment occurs payable
at such time as bonuses are paid generally to executive officers
for such year, but no later than March 15 of the year following the
year in which Executive’s employment terminates, the amount
(the “Prior Bonus Payment”) of which to be the greater
of (y) the bonus paid by the Company to the Executive for the
fiscal year immediately prior to the date of termination (if any)
and (z) the average of the bonus payments paid for the three
years immediately prior to the date of termination and (C) payment
by the Company to Executive of a bonus for the two years following
the fiscal year in which the termination of employment occurs
payable at such time as bonuses
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are paid
generally to executive officers for such years, but, in each case,
in no event later than December 31 of the year following the
year to which such bonus relates, the amount of each bonus being
equal to the Prior Bonus Payment.”
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3.
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A
new subsection (c) is added at the end of Section 5.3 to
read as follows:
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“The payments and benefits
under this Section 5.3 is subject to Section 5.4. The timing
of payments and benefits u
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