SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES 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* Restivo James P (Last) (First) (Middle) 100 BENEFITFOCUS WAY (Street) CHARLESTON SC 29492 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 01/18/2016	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Benefitfocus,Inc. [ BNFT ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) Chief Technology Officer	5. 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 Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
No securities beneficially owned	0	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

Remarks:

	/s/ S. Halle Vakani, Attorney-in-Fact	01/20/2016
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
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		POWER OF ATTORNEY

Known all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Milton A. Alpern, Paris Cavic, Donald R. Reynolds and S. Halle
Vakani, and each of them acting alone, signing singly, the undersigned's true
and lawful attorney-in-fact to:  (1) execute for and on behalf of the
undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer, director and/or 10% or
more stockholder of Benefitfocus, Inc. (the "Company"), Forms ID, 3, 4, 5 and
Update Passphrase Acknowledgement (and any amendments thereto) in accordance
with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934
Act"), and the rules promulgated thereunder; (2) do and perform any and all acts
for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to
complete and execute any such Form ID, 3, 4, 5 and Update Passphrase
Acknowledgement (and any amendments thereto) and to file timely such form with
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or
similar authority; and (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in
connection with the foregoing which in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact may
be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney
shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such
attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the 1934 Act.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms ID, 3, 4 and 5 with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered
to each of the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 13th day of January 2016.


/s/ James P. Restivo
James P. Restivo