UnitedHealth Group (UNH)

Evercare

Through its Evercare division, Ovations is one of the nation’s leaders in offering complete, individualized care planning and care benefits for aging, disabled and chronically ill individuals. Evercare serves approximately 124,000 people (including 53,000 with Medicare Advantage) across the nation in long-term care settings including nursing homes, community-based settings and private homes, as well as through hospice and palliative care. Evercare offers services through innovative care management and clinical programs.

Evercare integrates federal, state and private funding through a continuum of products from Special Needs Plans and long-term care Medicaid programs to hospice care, and serves people in 35 markets in home, community and nursing home settings. These services are provided primarily through nurse practitioners, nurses and care managers. Evercare operated Special Needs Plans in 34 states as of December 31, 2006.

Evercare Solutions for Caregivers is a comprehensive eldercare service program providing service coordination, consultation, claim management and information resources nationwide. Proprietary, automated medical record software enables the Evercare clinical care teams to capture and track patient data and clinical encounters, creating a comprehensive set of coherent care information that bridges across home, hospital and nursing home care settings for high-risk populations. Evercare also operates hospice and palliative care programs in nine states and intends to expand these products into at least five new markets in 2007.

About Evercare

Evercare coordinates health care and well-being services for the frail elderly, chronically ill, and disabled in the home, the community and skilled nursing facilities. Started in 1987, Evercare today serves more than 100,000 people nationwide through a variety of Medicaid, Medicare, and private-pay health plans. Evercare is part of Ovations, a division of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) dedicated to the health care needs of over-50 Americans. For more information about Evercare, call 1-866-772-0859 (TTY 1-888-685-8480) or visit www.evercarehealthplans.com.

About UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group (www.unitedhealthgroup.com) is a diversified health and well-being company dedicated to making health care work better. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., UnitedHealth Group offers a broad spectrum of products and services through six operating businesses: UnitedHealthcare, Ovations, AmeriChoice, Uniprise, Specialized Care Services and Ingenix. Through its family of businesses, UnitedHealth Group serves approximately 70 million individuals nationwide.

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NEWS RELEASE

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Evercare

Through its Evercare division, Ovations is one of the nation’s leaders in offering complete, individualized care planning and care benefits for aging, disabled and chronically ill individuals. Evercare serves approximately 80,000 people across the nation in long-term care settings including nursing homes, community-based settings and private homes, as well as through hospice and palliative care. Evercare offers services through innovative care management and clinical programs. In 2005, Evercare expanded its programs and now offers services in 23 states.

Evercare offers a variety of federally sponsored products that provide enhanced medical coverage to frail, elderly and chronically ill populations in both nursing homes and community settings. These services are provided primarily through nurse practitioners, nurses and care managers. Evercare also offers a Medicaid long-term health care product for elderly, physically disabled and other vulnerable individuals in five states. Evercare Connections is a comprehensive eldercare service program providing service coordination, consultation, claim management and information resources nationwide. Proprietary, automated medical record software enables Evercare geriatric care teams to capture and track patient data and clinical encounters in nursing home, hospital and home care settings. Evercare has begun extending its complex care management services to end-of-life situations and now offers community-based hospice programs in four states.

AmeriChoice

AmeriChoice provides network-based health and well-being services to beneficiaries of state Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP), and other government-sponsored health care programs through its affiliates. AmeriChoice provides health insurance coverage to eligible Medicaid beneficiaries in exchange for a fixed monthly premium per member from the applicable state. AmeriChoice provides services to nearly 1.3 million individuals in 13 states across the country. The individuals AmeriChoice serves generally live in areas that are medically underserved and where a consistent relationship with the medical community or a care provider is less likely. The population served by AmeriChoice also tends to face significant social and economic challenges. AmeriChoice offers government agencies a broad menu of separate management services—including clinical care, consulting and management, pharmacy benefit services and administrative and technology services—to help them effectively administer their distinct health care delivery systems for individuals in these programs.

AmeriChoice’s approach is grounded in its belief that health care cannot be provided effectively without consideration of all of the factors—social, economic and environmental, as well as physical—that affect a person’s life. AmeriChoice coordinates resources among family members, physicians, other health care providers and government and community-based agencies and organizations to provide continuous and effective care. For members, this means that the AmeriChoice Personal Care Model offers them a holistic approach to health care, emphasizing practical programs to improve their living circumstances as well as quality medical care and treatment in accessible, culturally sensitive, community-oriented settings. AmeriChoice’s disease management and outreach programs focus on high-prevalence and debilitating illnesses such as hypertension and

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cardiovascular disease, asthma, sickle cell disease, diabetes, cancer and high-risk pregnancy. Several of these programs have been developed by AmeriChoice with the help of leading researchers and clinicians at academic medical centers and medical schools.

For physicians, the AmeriChoice Personal Care Model means assistance with coordination of their patients’ care. AmeriChoice utilizes sophisticated technology to monitor preventive care interventions and evidence-based treatment protocols to support care management. AmeriChoice uses state-of-the-art telemedicine tools that enable nurses and physicians to monitor vital signs, check medication use, assess patient status and facilitate overall care. AmeriChoice utilizes advanced and unique pharmacy services—including benefit design, generic drug incentive programs, drug utilization review and preferred drug list development—to help optimize the use of pharmaceuticals and concurrently contain pharmacy expenditures to levels appropriate to the specific clinical situations. For state customers, the AmeriChoice Personal Care Model means increased access to care and improved quality, in a measurable system that reduces their administrative burden and lowers their costs.

AmeriChoice considers a variety of factors in determining in which state programs to participate, including the state’s experience and consistency of support for its Medicaid program in terms of service innovation and funding, the population base in the state, the willingness of the physician/provider community to participate with the AmeriChoice Personal Care Model, and the presence of community-based organizations that can partner with AmeriChoice to meet the needs of its members. Using these criteria, AmeriChoice entered one new market in 2005, signed an agreement to enter another new market in 2006, and is examining several others. Conversely, during the past three years, AmeriChoice has exited several markets because of reimbursement issues or lack of consistent direction and support from the sponsoring states.

Evercare

Through its Evercare division, Ovations is one of the nation’s leaders in offering complete, individualized care planning and care benefits for aging, vulnerable and chronically ill individuals, serving approximately 70,000 persons across the nation in nursing homes, community-based settings and private homes. In 2004, Evercare’s care management program for frail elderly nursing home residents was designated as a Special Needs Plan, converting it from a demonstration project to a permanent program under contract with the Medicare program. Evercare offers other services through innovative programs such as Evercare Choice, Evercare Select and Evercare Connections. Evercare Choice is a Medicare product that offers enhanced medical coverage to frail, elderly and chronically ill populations in both nursing homes and community settings. These services are

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provided primarily through nurse practitioners, physicians’ assistants and physicians. Evercare Select is a Medicaid, long-term health care product for elderly, physically disabled and other needy individuals. Evercare Connections is a comprehensive eldercare service program providing service coordination, consultation, claim management and information resources nationwide. Proprietary, automated medical record software enables Evercare geriatric care teams to capture and track patient data and clinical encounters in nursing home, hospital and home care settings. Evercare has begun extending its complex care management services to end-of-life situations. In 2004, Evercare began offering community-based hospice programs in two states.

AmeriChoice

AmeriChoice provides network-based health and well-being services to state Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and other government-sponsored health care programs and the beneficiaries of those programs. AmeriChoice provides services to nearly 1.3 million individuals, an expansion of approximately 155,000 individuals in 2004, in 13 states across the country. The individuals AmeriChoice serves generally live in areas that are medically underserved and where a consistent relationship with the medical community or a care provider is less likely. AmeriChoice’s population also tends to face significant social and economic challenges. AmeriChoice offers government agencies a broad menu of separate management services—including clinical care, consulting and management, pharmacy benefit services and administrative and technology services—to help them effectively administer their distinct health care delivery systems for individuals in these programs.

AmeriChoice’s approach is founded in its belief that health care cannot be provided effectively without consideration of all of the factors—social, economic, environmental and physical—that affect a person’s life. AmeriChoice coordinates resources among family, physicians, other health care providers and government and community-based agencies and organizations to provide continuous and effective care. For members, this means that the unique AmeriChoice Personal Care Model offers them a holistic approach to health care, emphasizing practical programs to improve their living circumstances as well as quality medical care and treatment in accessible, culturally-sensitive, community-oriented settings. AmeriChoice’s programs focus on high-prevalence and debilitating illnesses such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease, asthma, sickle cell anemia, diabetes, cancer and high-risk pregnancy. AmeriChoice utilizes specific disease management programs for asthma, diabetes, congestive heart failure, sickle cell anemia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, special needs, HIV and high-risk obstetrical and maternal management. In addition, AmeriChoice’s Healthy First Steps program is based on the premise that early identification and assessment of high-risk pregnancies and subsequent care by an obstetrician will help minimize premature deliveries and complications with premature babies.

For physicians, the AmeriChoice Personal Care Model means assistance with coordination of their patients’ care. AmeriChoice utilizes sophisticated telemedicine tools in inner city, public sector health care programs to support care management. This technology enables nurses and physicians to monitor important vital signs, check medication use, assess patient status and facilitate overall care. Distinctive outreach and education programs developed by AmeriChoice with the help of leading researchers and clinicians are used to target and intervene in the illnesses most common among individuals served by AmeriChoice, and are intended to ensure preventive interventions and well-child care. AmeriChoice utilizes advanced and unique pharmacy services—including benefit design, generic drug incentive programs, drug utilization review and preferred drug list development—to help optimize the use of pharmaceuticals and concurrently contain pharmacy expenditures to levels appropriate to the specific clinical situations. For state customers, the AmeriChoice Personal Care Model means increased access to care and improved quality, in a measurable system that reduces their administrative burden and lowers their costs. AmeriChoice uses advanced technology applications to support efficient, reliable and scalable business processes.

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funding, the population base in the state, the willingness of the physician/provider community to participate with the AmeriChoice Personal Care Model and the presence of community-based organizations AmeriChoice can work with to meets the needs of individuals. Using these criteria, AmeriChoice entered one new market in 2004 and is examining several other markets. Conversely, during the past three years, AmeriChoice has exited several markets because of reimbursement issues or lack of consistent direction and support.