Company Profile
WellPoint
Company Overview
For WellPoint, customers' health is the point. Founded in 1944 and headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) is the largest health insurer in the US. The company serves about 34 million medical members in 14 US states. It is the Blue Cross licensee for California and the Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. Subsidiaries include UniCare, AdminaStar, and others. The company had 2005 revenue of about $45.1 billion and employs about 42,000 people. In December 2005, it acquired WellChoice, Inc. for about $6.5 billion.
Company History
WellPoint, Inc. (formerly Anthem, Inc.) was formed when WellPoint Health Networks Inc. and Anthem, Inc. merged in 2004 to become the nation's leading health benefits company. Learn more.
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 serving members in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin; and in all 50 states through UniCare.
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