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Coventry Health Care Commences Offering of Senior Notes and Shares of Coventry Common Stock Owned by the Principal Financial Group.


Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers

BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2002

Coventry Health Care Coventry Health Care, Inc. (Coventry) (NYSE: CVH) is a managed health care company in the United States. On February 8th of 2007 Coventry agreed to acquire Concentra's Workers Compensation Managed Care Services Businesses. External links
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) announced today that it has agreed to sell $175.0 million original principal amount of its 8.125% Senior Notes due 2012 in a private placement.

In addition, Coventry announced that Principal Financial Group, Inc. has agreed to sell 7,000,000 shares of Coventry common stock in an underwritten public offering pursuant to the registration statement filed by Coventry on November 30, 2001. The offering was priced at $19.50 per share.

The Principal has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,050,000 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments. In the event the underwriters do not fully exercise their over-allotment option, Coventry has agreed to purchase from The Principal any shares the underwriters do not purchase at the public offering price.

Coventry will not receive any proceeds from the offering of common stock.

Coventry also announced that on February 1, 2002 it expects to complete its previously announced purchase from The Principal of the remaining approximately 7.1 million shares of Coventry common stock owned by The Principal and a warrant owned by The Principal, currently exercisable for approximately 3.1 million shares of Coventry common stock.

The aggregate purchase price for the remaining shares of common stock and the warrant is approximately $176.1 million. Coventry intends to finance the stock and warrant repurchase with the proceeds of the sale of its senior notes and cash on hand.

The completion of the offering of senior notes is conditioned upon the substantially concurrent closing of the secondary offering of Coventry common stock owned by The Principal. The completion of the secondary offering of Coventry common stock owned by The Principal is conditioned on the substantially concurrent closing of the senior notes offering and the stock and warrant repurchase by Coventry.

The shares and warrant of Coventry owned by The Principal were acquired by The Principal in connection with the merger of Coventry and Principal Health Care in April 1998. Following the completion of the secondary share offering and the stock and warrant repurchase, The Principal will no longer own any shares or warrants of Coventry.

Salomon Smith Barney Inc. is acting as sole bookrunning lead manager of the public offering of common stock, and Goldman, Sachs & Co., Lehman Brothers Inc. and CIBC World Markets CIBC World Markets is the investment banking division of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. It helps governments, large companies, and other large institutions obtain capital and credit and is a primary dealer in U.S. Treasury securities.  Corp. are acting as co-managers of that offering.

Copies of the prospectus relating to the secondary share offering may be obtained from Salomon Smith Barney Inc., Brooklyn Army Terminal The Brooklyn Army Terminal consists of large complex of piers, docks, warehouses, cranes, railroad sidings and cargo loading equipment. The terminal was responsible for shipment of army equipment and personnel overseas. , 140 58th Street, 8th Floor, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, NY 11220.

The senior notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the senior notes nor shall there be any sale of the senior notes in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor

1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated.

2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive.
 provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1999, relating to future events or future financial performance.

Actual performance may be significantly impacted by certain risks and uncertainties described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
 for the year ended December 31, 2000 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Coventry asks participants on the call to review and be familiar with its filings with the SEC.

Coventry Health Care is a managed health care company based in Bethesda, Maryland operating health plans and insurance companies under the names Coventry Health Care, Coventry Health and Life, Carelink Health Plans, Group Health Plan, HealthAmerica, HealthAssurance, HealthCare USA, Southern Health and WellPath.

The Company provides a full range of managed care products and services including HMO HMO health maintenance organization.

HMO
n.
A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial,
, PPO PPO
abbr.
preferred provider organization


PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there
, POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET.

(2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak.

POS - point of sale
, Medicare Risk and Medicaid to 1.9 million members in a broad cross section of employer and government-funded groups in 13 markets throughout the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States. More information is available on the Internet at http://www.CoventryHealth.com.
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