Coventry Health Care to Speak at the Lehman Brothers Global Healthcare Conference

Coventry Health Care, Inc. (NYSE:CVH) announced today that Shawn Guertin, Chief Financial Officer, is scheduled to present at the Lehman Brothers Global Healthcare Conference in Miami, Florida, at 1:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 18, 2008. The public may access a live webcast of the presentation and accompanying slides on the Investor Relations page of Coventry’s website at www.cvty.com. A replay will be available at the same website following the presentation until Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Coventry Health Care (www.cvty.com) is a diversified national managed healthcare company based in Bethesda, Maryland, operating health plans, insurance companies, network rental and workers’ compensation services companies. Through its Commercial Business, Individual Consumer & Government Business, and Specialty Business divisions, Coventry provides a full range of risk and fee-based managed care products and services to a broad cross section of individuals, employer and government-funded groups, government agencies, and other insurance carriers and administrators.