WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States, serving approximately 34.8 million members as of December 31, 2007. WellPoint is an independent licensee of the BCBSA, an association of independent health benefit plans. WellPoint serves its members as the Blue Cross licensee for California and as 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 BCBS in 10 New York city metropolitan and surrounding counties, and as BCBS in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the No. Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), and Wisconsin. WellPoint also serves its members throughout the country as UniCare. WellPoint is licensed to conduct insurance operations in all 50 states through its subsidiaries. WellPoint offers a broad spectrum of network-based managed care plans to the large and small employer, individual, Medicaid and senior markets. WellPoint also provides an array of specialty and other products and services including life and disability insurance benefits, pharmacy benefit management, or PBM, specialty pharmacy, dental, vision, behavioral health benefit services, long-term care insurance and flexible spending accounts. |