WellPoint Announces Appearances at Upcoming C...( INDIANAPOLIS Oct. 28 /- WellPoint...),Health

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) announced today that senior management is scheduled to present at the following conferences:

-- Oppenheimer 19th Annual Healthcare Conference on November 4, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time ("EST"); and

-- 2008 Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference on November 13, 2008, at 9:30 a.m. Mountain Standard Time (11:30 a.m. EST).

All interested parties are invited to listen to webcasts of the presentations by visiting http://www.wellpoint.com and selecting the "Investor Info" link. Following the presentations, webcast replays will be available at http://www.wellpoint.com for two weeks.

To listen to the live webcasts, please visit WellPoint's website at least 15 minutes early to download and install any necessary audio software. Individuals who listen to the presentations will be presumed to have read WellPoint's most recent filings with the SEC, including but not limited to its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the reporting periods of 2008.

About WellPoint, Inc.

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.),
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