WellPoint at a glance

WellPoint, Inc. is the nation’s leading health benefits company. More than 38,000 WellPoint associates serve nearly 28 million medical members through the individual, small group, large group, national accounts, senior, and state-sponsored customer segments.

No other health benefits company has leading local market presence in so many geographic areas. WellPoint, Inc. is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and serves its members as the Blue Cross licensee for California and 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, Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), and Wisconsin.

We also serve members through UniCare and HealthLink. UniCare serves medical members nationwide with innovative, high-quality health care plans and products. HealthLink is one of the largest managed care networks in the central United States and also operates two prominent networks in the Mid-Atlantic and Texas.

WellPoint’s specialty companies provide a full range of benefits and services to our health plan customers, including pharmacy benefit management; vision, dental and behavioral health benefits; group life and disability insurance benefits; workers’ compensation; and long-term care insurance.

WellPoint is the nation’s second-largest Medicare contractor. In 2004, our combined operations handled more than 113 million Medicare claims. WellPoint companies administer Medicaid and children’s health programs in a number of states. In fact, Blue Cross of California is the largest Medicaid managed care provider in the United States.

WellPoint has established one of the most significant social legacies in American industry with the creation or funding of charitable foundations in many states we serve. Today, these independent foundations have assets of more than $6 billion. In addition, Anthem, Inc. and WellPoint Health Networks Inc. established corporate foundations that today have total assets of over $150 million. Through our foundations and corporate giving programs, we contributed a total of $14 million in 2004.