BNET Industries
Market Cap:$26.7B
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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Managed Care Stocks Rally As Goldman Sachs Sees Group As Attractive (CI, HNT, UNH)
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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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UPDATE 2-WellPoint weighs more job cuts amid recession
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Express Scripts Executive: Co Will Keep Weighing Opportunities
News & Analysis
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Multi-Payer Portals Are All The Rage
BNET
- 2009-04-07
A growing number of health plans are deciding that it doesn’t make sense for them to offer physicians individual web portals to check patient eligibility, benefits, claims status, and other insurance-related data. Instead, they’re using multi-payer portals that simplify the workflow in the physician office by reducing the number of...
Physician Ratings Services Still Come Up Short
BNET
- 2009-02-18
The company that puts out the Zagat guides to restaurants and leisure activities licensed its name to WellPoint, one of the largest U.S. insurers, about a year ago. Now WellPoint is posting reviews of physicians by WellPoint members for the use of its other members across the country, plus members...
Healthcare Roundup: Abbott-AMO Deal, WellPoint Gets Whacked, and More
BNET
- 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. ...
Aggressive Stock Traders Alert! April 4, 2006.
- 2006-04-04
M2 PRESSWIRE-4 April 2006-Wall Street News Alert: Aggressive Stock Traders Alert! April 4, 2006C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04042006 Weston, FLA. - Wall Street News Alert's "stocks to watch" this morning are: ER Urgent Care Centers (OTC: ERUG), LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. (NASDAQ:...
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