WellPoint Announces Acquisition of DeC...(linkage between poor oral health and ser...),Health

Date:4/29/2008

linkage between poor oral health and serious medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and increased risk of pre-term low birth weight babies," said Dennis Casey, President and CEO of WellPoint's UniCare and Specialty businesses. "An integrated health benefits plan that includes medical and dental coverage provides consumers with important preventative services that focus on overall well-being and good health."

DeCare currently serves 10 dental plans, primarily as a third party administrator. DeCare also operates DeCare Systems Ireland (DSI), which offers custom enterprise software solutions, e-business applications and application performance tuning and is also the first American company to offer dental benefits in Ireland as Vhi DeCare Dental.

Upon the completion of the acquisition, WellPoint's dental company will provide and administer dental benefits to 9 million members and have one of the nation's largest dental PPO networks.

About WellPoint, Inc.

WellPoint's mission is to improve the lives of the people it serves and the health of its communities. WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States. Through its nationwide networks, the company delivers a number of leading health benefit solutions through a broad portfolio of integrated health care plans and related services, along with a wide range of specialty products such as life and disability insurance benefits, pharmacy benefit management, dental, vision, behavioral health benefit services, as well as long term care insurance and flexible spending accounts. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, 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),
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