WellPoint, Inc. at Merrill Lynch Health Services Investor
Insurance News Net, PA -
Look at what we do with informatics and our Centers of Excellence. We never get credit for it, but Indiana three years ago, we saw tremendous variations in outcomes for cardiovascular surgeons. We made a decision three years ago that prior to (indiscernible) our large network, all heart surgeries scheduled to be done in certain Centers of Excellence (technical difficulty) Indiana because we cut out about one-third of the hospitals that do heart surgery and directed the volume to the remaining two thirds we got better rates. So our cost for heart surgery actually came down, yet I can also point out that in 2005, our Centers of Excellence had a (indiscernible) better mortality rate than the statewide average, which statistically means that there are 300 of our members alive today that would be dead if we didn't do our Centers of Excellence. So I think the service that we are providing is a much more valuable service. The reason why, our margins have gone, pretax, (technical difficulty).
2006-12-31
Runnin' with the bulls
Indianapolis Star, United States -
Brown said over the past five years the company has worked to make its software more reliable and easier for customers to expand or reconfigure for their changing needs. In the past year, Interactive also has aggressively gone after large corporate customers such as Microsoft and Motorola -- big companies that spend lots of money on technology.
2006-12-29
WellPoint CEO Exercises Options
Houston Chronicle, United States -
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2006-12-20
WellPoint 2007 estimate just above Wall St view
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2006-12-16
WellPoint Highlights Strong Outlook for 2007 at Annual Investor
Insurance News Net, PA -
This press release contains certain forward-looking information about WellPoint, Inc. ("WellPoint") that is intended to be covered by the safe harbor for "forward-looking statements" provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. Words such as "expect(s)", "feel(s)", "believe(s)", "will", "may", "anticipate(s)" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements include, but are not limited to, financial projections and estimates and their underlying assumptions; statements regarding plans, objectives and expectations with respect to future operations, products and services; and statements regarding future performance. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond the control of WellPoint, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, the forward-looking information and statements. These risks and uncertainties include: those discussed and identified in public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") made by WellPoint and WellChoice, Inc. ("WellChoice"); trends in health care costs and utilization rates; our ability to secure sufficient premium rate increases; competitor pricing below market trends of increasing costs; increased government regulation of health benefits and managed care; significant acquisitions or divestitures by major competitors; introduction and utilization of new prescription drugs and technology; a downgrade in our financial strength ratings; litigation and investigations targeted at health benefits companies and our ability to resolve litigation and investigations within estimates; our ability to contract with providers consistent with past practice; other potential uses of cash in the future that present attractive alternatives to share repurchases; our ability to achieve expected synergies and operating efficiencies in the WellPoint Health Networks Inc. merger and WellChoice acquisition within the expected time-frames or at all and to successfully integrate our operations; such integration may be more difficult, time-consuming or costly than expected; revenues following the transactions may be lower than expected; operating costs, customer loss and business disruption, including, without limitation, difficulties in maintaining relationships with employees, customers, clients or suppliers, may be greater than expected following the transactions; our ability to meet expectations regarding repurchases of shares of our common stock; our ability to meet expectations regarding the accounting and tax treatments of the transactions and the value of transaction consideration; future bio-terrorist activity or other potential public health epidemics; and general economic downturns. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof. WellPoint does not undertake any obligation to republish revised forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Readers are also urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures in WellPoint's and WellChoice's various SEC reports, including but not limited to WellPoint's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
2006-12-13
WellPoint Leases 117,500 sf of Office at IMC
GlobeSt. com, NY -
INDIANAPOLIS-The health benefits company plans to house its growing specialty pharmaceutical business at the 1.5-million-sf facility.
2006-12-12
WellPoint Announces Webcast of Its Conference With Investment
Earthtimes.org -
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellPoint, Inc. today announced that it will conduct a live webcast of its Investor Conference on Tuesday, December 12, 2006. The meeting will be hosted in Westlake Village, CA, by Larry C. Glasscock, chairman, president and chief executive officer of WellPoint, Inc., and will feature several presentations by the senior leadership of the Company.
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