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WellPoint Inc. (WLP) is in the Health Care Industry

Revenue
Dec 31 2007
$61.1B
Profit
Dec 31 2007
$3.3B
Market Cap
Jul 23 2008
$54.4M

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  • Highline Data Analysis Shows Revenue for Health Insurance Industry Groups Grew in 2007

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Revenue for the five largest health insurance industry groups increased by an average of 6.3 percent in 2007, according to an analysis by Highline Data. The Health Industry Group Report compared the statutory financial state of 110 health industry groups...

    Articles 2008-07-15

  • WellPoint Partners With CareNex Health Services to Expand Its Neonatal Intensive Care Services Program

    INDIANAPOLIS, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc., today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership position with CareNex Health Services to help promote quality care and service for infants experiencing clinically-complex health issues, and their families. WellPoint is currently partnering with CareNex to expand its affiliated health...

    Articles 2008-07-14

  • WellPoint Foundation Supports National Program Focused on Patient-Centered Medical Homes

    Grant designed to develop framework for adoption nationwide INDIANAPOLIS, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint Foundation, LLC, a private, non-profit organization wholly funded by WellPoint, Inc., today announced that it has awarded a $95,000 grant to the National Partnership for Women & Families National Partnership. The grant is...

    Articles 2008-07-09

  • Study Measures Real-World Comparative Effectiveness of Asthma Controller Medications

    WellPoint's Health Outcomes Subsidiary HealthCore Finds Optimal Outcomes Can Be Achieved Through Compliant Use of Orally Administered Controllers INDIANAPOLIS, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Compliance with inhaled medications for asthma can improve clinical outcomes, as measured by reduced emergency room visits and inpatient hospitalizations, according to a retrospective...

    Articles 2008-07-08

  • Gates optimistic that Iraq troop cutbacks will continue

    WASHINGTON AFP — US Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed optimism Tuesday that US troop cutbacks will continue in Iraq, saying the transition of control to Iraqi security forces was going well. "As the Iraqi security forces get stronger and get better then we will be able to continue...

    Articles 2008-07-08

  • Warner Pacific Enters into an Agreement with CIMS

    WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- Warner Pacific Insurance Services, a top producing general agency for many of the nation's largest health insurance carriers, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire select Comprehensive Integrated Marketing Services' CIMS non-WellPoint carrier contracts. CIMS is a leading full service general agency...

    Articles 2008-07-08

  • National BDPA and WorkplaceDiversity.com Announce Winners of the 2008 Best Companies for Blacks In Technology Award

    Premier Organization for African Americans in IT and Leading Diversity Job Board Recognize Best Companies for Blacks in Technology LARGO, Md. and PARSIPPANY, N.J., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The National BDPA, Black Data Processing Associates (http://www.bdpa.org/), and WorkplaceDiversity.com (http://www.workplacediversity.com/), the source for diversity talent, announced Allstate Insurance,...

    Articles 2008-07-07

  • WellPoint to Cover Rotarix® Vaccine

    INDIANAPOLIS, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc. announced today that, effective immediately, it will cover the rotavirus vaccine, RotarixR, designed to prevent a virus which causes vomiting and diarrhea in infants and children. This decision to cover RotarixR, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, is based on formal recommendations...

    Articles 2008-06-27

  • WellPoint's Member Health Index Shows Improvement in the Quality of Health Care Received

    INDIANAPOLIS, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellPoint, Inc. , the nation's largest health benefits company, announced it successfully met its goal of improving the quality of health care its members receive, as measured by its Member Health Index MHI in the first year of the MHI program. Launched in 2007,...

    Articles 2008-06-25

  • WellPoint Foundation Provides $10,000 to Aid in Relief Efforts in Kansas

    TOPEKA, Kan., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The WellPoint Foundation, a private, non-profit organization wholly funded by WellPoint, Inc., the parent company of UniCare Health Plan of Kansas, Inc. UniCare, is providing a $10,000 grant to the American Red Cross North Central Kansas to aid in the recovery efforts following...

    Articles 2008-06-25

  • WellPoint to Hold Conference Call and Webcast to Discuss Second Quarter Results On July 23, 2008

    INDIANAPOLIS, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellPoint, Inc. will release second quarter 2008 financial results on July 23, 2008, at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time EDT. Management will review these results and its outlook during a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT that same morning. The conference call should...

    Articles 2008-06-25

  • Incorporated: 2001
  • CEO: Ms. Angela F. Braly

WellPoint is a health benefits company, serving 34.8 million medical members at Dec 31 2007. Co. is also an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an association of independent health benefit plans. Co. provides network-based managed care plans, including preferred provider organizations; health maintenance organizations; point-of-service plans; traditional indemnity plans and other hybrid plans; hospital only and limited benefit products. Co. also provides managed care services to self-funded customers; and an array of specialty and other products and services including life and disability insurance benefits, pharmacy benefit management, and specialty pharmacy.

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WellPoint Inc. Company Info

Board of Directors

Mr. Larry C. Glasscock

Chairman

Ms. Julie A. Hill

Mr. Ramiro G. Peru

Ms. Sheila P. Burke

Mr. Victor S. Liss

Dr. Jane G. Pisano Ph.D.

Mr. George A. Schaefer Jr.

Ms. Jacquelyn M. Ward

Mr. John E. Zuccotti

Ms. Angela F. Braly

Mr. William H.T. Bush

Mr. Warren Y. Jobe

Mr. William G. Mays

Senator Donald W Riegle Jr.

Mr. William J. Ryan

Dr. Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D

Ms. Susan B. Bayh

Contact Information

120 Monument Circle

Indianapolis, IN

http://www.wellpoint.com

317 488-6000

NAICS Code

Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers: 524114