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This excerpt taken from the UNH DEF 14A filed Apr 23, 2009.

Disclosure of Fees Paid to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Aggregate fees billed to the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 represent fees billed by the Company’s principal independent registered public accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and their respective affiliates, which includes Deloitte Consulting (collectively, “Deloitte & Touche”). The Audit Committee pre-approved the audit and non-audit services provided in fiscal year 2008 by Deloitte & Touche, as reflected in the table below.

 

     Fiscal Year Ended

Fee Category

   2008    2007

Audit Fees

   $ 23,765,000    $ 25,650,000

Audit-Related Fees (a)

     1,398,000      1,800,000
             

Total Audit and Audit Related Fees

   $ 25,163,000    $ 27,450,000

Tax Fees (b)

     1,557,000      1,650,000

All Other Fees (c)

     —        125,000
             

Total

   $ 26,720,000    $ 29,225,000
             

 

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(a) Audit-Related Fees include benefit plan and other required audits, certain AICPA agreed-upon procedures, internal control assessments and due diligence services.

 

(b) Tax Fees include tax compliance, planning and support services.

 

(c) All Other Fees include certain actuarial reviews, security systems assistance, risk management support and contract analysis and review assistance services.
This excerpt taken from the UNH DEF 14A filed Apr 28, 2008.

Disclosure of Fees Paid to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Aggregate fees billed to the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 represent fees billed by the Company’s principal independent registered public accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member fir

ms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and their respective affiliates, which includes Deloitte Consulting (collectively, “Deloitte & Touche”). The Audit Committee pre-approved the audit and non-audit services provided in fiscal year 2007 by Deloitte & Touche, as reflected in the table below.

 

     Fiscal Year Ended

Fee Category

   2007    2006

Audit Fees

   $ 22,650,000    $ 26,978,000

Audit-Related Fees (a)

     1,800,000      1,048,000
             

Total Audit and Audit Related Fees

   $ 24,450,000      28,026,000

Tax Fees (b)

     1,650,000      595,000

All Other Fees (c)

     125,000      85,000
             

Total

   $ 26,225,000    $ 28,706,000
             

 

(a) Audit-Related Fees include benefit plan and other required audits, certain AICPA agreed-upon procedures, internal control assessments, and due diligence services.

 

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(b) Tax Fees include tax compliance, planning and support services.

 

(c) All Other Fees include allowable actuarial reviews, security systems assistance, risk management support, and contract analysis and review assistance services.
This excerpt taken from the UNH DEF 14A filed Apr 30, 2007.

Disclosure of Fees Paid to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Aggregate fees billed to the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 represent fees billed by the Company’s principal independent registered public accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and their respective affiliates, which includes Deloitte Consulting (collectively, “Deloitte & Touche”). The Audit Committee pre-approved the audit and non-audit services provided in fiscal year 2006 by Deloitte & Touche, as reflected in the table below.

 

     Fiscal Year Ended

Fee Category

   2006    2005

Audit Fees

   $ 26,978,000    $ 14,100,000

Audit-Related Fees (a)

     1,048,000      1,865,000
             

Total Audit and Audit Related Fees

   $ 28,026,000      15,965,000

Tax Fees (b)

     595,000      580,000

All Other Fees (c)

     85,000      130,000
             

Total

   $ 28,706,000    $ 16,675,000
             

(a) Audit-Related Fees include benefit plan and other required audits, certain AICPA agreed-upon procedures, internal control assessments, and due diligence services.

 

(b) Tax Fees include tax compliance, planning and support services.

 

(c) All Other Fees include allowable actuarial reviews, security systems assistance, risk management support, and contract analysis and review assistance services.
This excerpt taken from the UNH DEF 14A filed Apr 7, 2006.

Disclosure of Fees Paid to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Aggregate fees billed to the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 represent fees billed by the Company’s principal independent registered public accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and their respective affiliates (collectively, “Deloitte & Touche”), which includes Deloitte Consulting. The Audit Committee pre-approved the audit and non-audit services provided in fiscal year 2005 by Deloitte & Touche, as reflected in the table below.

 

      Fiscal Year Ended

Fee Category

   2005    2004

Audit Fees

   $ 14,100,000    $ 14,398,000

Audit-Related Fees (a)

     1,865,000      2,972,000
             

Total Audit and Audit-Related Fees

     15,965,000      17,370,000

Tax Fees (b)

     580,000      585,000

All Other Fees (c)

     130,000      112,000
             

Total

   $ 16,675,000    $ 18,067,000
             

(a) Audit-Related Fees include benefit plan and other required audits, certain AICPA agreed upon procedures, internal control assessments, and due diligence services.

 

(b) Tax Fees include tax compliance, planning and support services.

 

(c) All Other Fees include allowable actuarial reviews, security systems assistance, risk management support, and contract analysis and review assistance services.
This excerpt taken from the UNH DEF 14A filed Apr 7, 2005.

Disclosure of Fees Paid to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

Aggregate fees billed to the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 represent fees billed by the Company’s principal independent registered public accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and their respective affiliates (collectively, “Deloitte & Touche”), which includes Deloitte Consulting. The Audit Committee pre-approved the audit and non-audit services provided in fiscal year 2004 by Deloitte & Touche, as reflected in the table below.

 

Fee Category


   Fiscal Year Ended

   2004

   2003

Audit Fees (a)

   $ 14,398,000    $ 6,853,000

Audit-Related Fees (b)

     2,972,000      2,035,000
    

  

Total Audit and Audit-Related Fees

     17,370,000      8,888,000

Tax Fees (c)

     585,000      860,000

All Other Fees (d)

     112,000      776,000
    

  

Total

   $ 18,067,000    $ 10,524,000
    

  


(a) The increase in audit fees from 2003 to 2004 resulted primarily from the audit of management’s report on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

(b) Audit-Related Fees include benefit plan and other required audits, certain AICPA agreed upon procedures, internal control assessments, and due diligence services.

 

(c) Tax Fees include tax compliance, planning and support services.

 

(d) All Other Fees include allowable actuarial reviews, security systems assistance, risk management support, and contract analysis and review assistance services, including $0 and $711,000 of fees for services provided by Deloitte Consulting for the years ended December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2003, respectively.

 

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