Prescription Solutions’ Dr. Brian Solow Named to National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE) Board of Directors

Prescription Solutions, a leading pharmacy benefits management (PBM) organization and a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, today announced that Brian K. Solow, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., Senior Medical Director and Vice President of Clinical Services, has been named to represent Prescription Solutions on the Board of Directors for the non-profit National Council for Patient Information and Education (NCPIE).

"With Dr. Solow joining the NCPIE Board as the first corporate PBM representative on their prestigious roster of directors, we have an opportunity to better serve our clients and members,” said Dr. Joseph Addiego, Chief Medical Officer for Prescription Solutions. "Educating patients about appropriate medication use is at the very core of what both NCPIE and Prescription Solutions stand for. We see tremendous opportunities to work together to improve the appropriate use of medications and to promote drug safety through enhanced communication efforts.”

Dr. Solow oversees clinical activities related to development, enhancement and implementation of clinical programs that support formulary management at Prescription Solutions. Through the development of disease therapy management and medication therapy management programs, Dr. Solow builds on the company's tradition of clinical excellence that emphasizes sound scientific evidence and reflects balanced consideration for the clinical interests of patients, prescribing healthcare professionals and employer groups offering health coverage.

According to Ray Bullman, Executive Vice President of NCPIE, "For more than 25 years, we have worked to better equip and enable consumers to make sound decisions about a very important part of good health: use of medicines. We are pleased to have the experience and expertise Dr. Solow brings to our board and welcome the opportunity to work with him and Prescription Solutions in promoting information sharing among consumers, prescribers, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.”

Dr. Solow is board certified in the area of family practice, and completed his residency through the University of California, Los Angeles. His interests include research in the topics of appropriate medication usage and patient prescription education and he holds faculty appointments at the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy and the University of Southern California. Dr. Solow is also a Clinical Professor for the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.

About Prescription Solutions

Prescription Solutions is an innovative pharmacy benefit management company managing the prescription drug benefit of commercial, Medicare and other governmental health plans, as well as those of employers and unions. A UnitedHealth Group company, Prescription Solutions serves members through a national network of 64,000 community pharmacies and state-of-the-art mail service pharmacies in Carlsbad, California, and Overland Park, Kansas, which have both earned the prestigious Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites™ (VIPPS®) accreditation by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®). The company was recently named by WilsonRx® as the No. 1 National Top-Tier PBM, and No. 1 National Mail Order Pharmacy for customer satisfaction two years in a row. Prescription Solutions also won two Silver Awards for URAC’s Best Practices for Consumer Empowerment and Protection Awards – Geriatric RxMonitor program (2008) and the Drug Interaction Alert Program (2009). Additional information can be found at www.prescriptionsolutions.com.

About UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) 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, OptumHealth, Ingenix, and Prescription Solutions. Through its family of businesses, UnitedHealth Group serves more than 70 million individuals nationwide.

About NCPIE

The National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) coalition of over 100 diverse organizations whose mission is to stimulate and improve communication of information on appropriate medicine use to consumers and healthcare professionals. NCPIE is the nation's leading authority for informing the general public and health care professionals on safe medicine use through better communication. Better medicine communication can lead to better health outcomes and improved quality of life. Additional information is available at www.talkaboutrx.org.

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