Joseph P Disabato Form 4 Benefitfocus,Inc. / JOSEPH P DISABATO ownership change

SEC Form 4

FORM 4

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

DISABATO JOSEPH P

(Last) (First) (Middle)

C/O GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC

200 WEST STREET

(Street)

NEW YORK NY 10282

(City) (State) (Zip)

2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Benefitfocus,Inc. [ BNFT ]

5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

X	Director	10% Owner
	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)

3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
04/02/2019

4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock	04/02/2019		S		488,211(2)	D	$46.8025	31,789(3)	I	See footnotes(1)(2)(3)

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

1. The Reporting Person is a managing director of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC ("Goldman Sachs"). Goldman Sachs is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ("GS Group"). The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership of the securities reported herein except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein, if any, and this report shall not be deemed an admission that the Reporting Person is the beneficial owner of, or has any pecuniary interest in, such securities for purposes of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or for any other purpose.

2. Pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated February 28, 2019 (the "Underwriting Agreement") and a prospectus dated February 28, 2019, and in connection with a registered public offering (the "Offering") of the common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Common Stock"), of Benefitfocus Inc. (the "Company"), certain limited partnerships (the "Limited Partnerships") as selling shareholders in the Offering, sold 488,211 shares of Common Stock at $46.8025 per share to the underwriters listed in the Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriters") . The Underwriters exercised their option to purchase the remaining shares of Common Stock from the Limited Partners on April 2, 2019.

3. Goldman Sachs beneficially owns directly and GS Group may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 31,789 shares of Common Stock and Goldman Sachs also had open short positions of 449 shares of Common Stock, reflecting changes due to exempt transactions. The Limited Partnerships do not own any Common Stock in the Company.

Remarks:

	/s/ Jamison Yardley, Attorney-in-fact	04/04/2019
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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