WellPoint Ranks Fifth on Indiana's 25 Keepers

INDIANAPOLIS, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc. ranked fifth in the Indiana's 25 Keepers: Keeping Good Company survey organized by Indy Men's Magazine and "Inside INdiana Business." The survey highlighted organizations whose continued economic contributions to Indiana are critical to the state's future.

"Our roots in Indiana go back to the mid-1940s and have served as a great foundation for our overall growth and success," said Larry C. Glasscock, president and chief executive officer of WellPoint, Inc. "Indiana will continue to serve as an important base for our company as we become the most valued health plan to members, employers, physicians, hospitals and investors."

Indiana's 25 Keepers: Keeping Good Company is a joint editorial partnership between Indy Men's Magazine and "Inside INdiana Business" with Gerry Dick. More than 4,000 votes were collected in a statewide call for nominations that were used to determine the ranking.

The Indy Men's Magazine and "Inside INdiana Business" ranking follows several other recent awards for WellPoint. The company was ranked fourth in Barron's 500 list of top performing stocks, is ranked in the top 100 of the Fortune 500 list and was named to the BusinessWeek 50, an annual list of the 50 top-performing companies in the Standard & Poor's 500.

About WellPoint, Inc.

WellPoint, Inc. is the largest publicly traded commercial health benefits company in terms of membership in the United States. WellPoint, Inc. is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and serves its members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; 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, Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin; and through HealthLink and UniCare. Additional information about WellPoint is available at http://www.wellpoint.com/ .