BNET Industries
Market Cap:$25.1B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$61.2B
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of medical membership in the United States. WellPoint is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and serves its members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as the Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 10 New York City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as the Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin; and through UniCare.
Number of Employees 42,900
Contact Information
120 Monument Cir
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-4906
(317) 488-6255
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers: 524114
Recent Events
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AMA Suit Against UnitedHealth Nears End
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Express Scripts acquires WellPoint's NextRx subsidiaries
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HEADLINE STOCKS-Some U.S. stocks on the move on Dec. 1
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Express Scripts acquires NextRx subsidiaries of WellPoint
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Analyst Upgrades for November 24th
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BRIEF-RESEARCH ALERT-JP Morgan raises Cigna, WellPoint to overweight
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Oppenheimer & Co. reiterates WellPoint Inc. at 'outperform'
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Cigna will keep its PBM business
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Medco Net Rises 13%, Boosts Target
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WellPoint Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results
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WellPoint's Pat Murphy Named to Treasury & Risk Magazine's '40 Under 40'
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WellPoint Honored With BlueWorksR Award for Journey Forward, an Initiative to Provide Coordinated
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Moody's affirms Wellpoint, units
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2nd UPDATE: Express Scripts: Extortionist Has Even More Data
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Cigna, other health insurers, trade lower as debate continues
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Health insurers trade mixed as debate continues
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Citigroup Upgrades Wellpoint WLP to Buy; Downgrades UNH & CVH
News & Analysis
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Healthcare Roundup: Abbott-AMO Deal, WellPoint Gets Whacked, and More
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- 2009-01-14
Abbott buys American Medical Optics in $2.8 billion deal; WellPoint has its Medicare enrollment suspended over complaints; WellPoint expects $349 million in fourth-quarter investment losses; Medtronic pays $225 million for Ablation Frontiers; and more. by David P. Hamilton
The never ever eleven: the danger that a "never event" can become an exposure against which hospitals cannot defend has some risk managers wondering whether hospitals will be bearing the brunt of strict liability in which juries have only to fin
- 2008-10-01
Summary * Beginning on Oct. 1, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will refuse to pay for 11 conditions it identifies as "reasonably preventable." * Healthcare risk managers say the ramifications of these rules may be too punitive and hold hospitals responsible for exposures they cannot control. ...
New Medicare alliance formed.(Technology)
- 2008-05-01
WellPoint Inc. and its affiliated companies, and Quotit Corp., an Internet application service provider for the health insurance and employee benefits industry, have announced an alliance to provide insurance rate quotes on Medicare plans to seniors. WellPoint Inc. and its affiliated companies, and Quotit Corp., an...
Moderating pharmacy cost trends help boost managed care earnings.(News)
- 2006-03-13
Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Managed care companies reported solid earnings growth in 2005 as commercial health care costs were kept in check by the implementation of a range of cost-control efforts. As a result of those efforts, commercial policyhol Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ...
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