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Coventry Health Care Completes Acquisition of PrimeONE.


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BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000

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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, Inc. (NASDAQ/NM:CVTY) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of The Anthem Company's West Virginia managed care subsidiary, PrimeONE, Inc., effective February 1, 2000.

PrimeONE has approximately 18,000 commercial members and annual premium revenue of $32 million. The acquisition expands Coventry's West Virginia service area and brings its total membership in the state to over 109,000 members.

&uot;We are pleased to complete the PrimeONE acquisition on schedule,&uot; said Allen F. Wise, Coventry's President and Chief Executive Officer. &uot;This transaction, combined with the Carelink acquisition in late 1999, solidifies Coventry's market leadership position in West Virginia.&uot;

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, HealthAmerica, HealthAssurance, HealthCare USA, Group Health Plan, Southern Health and Carelink Health Plans.

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 1.5 million members in a broad cross section of employer and government-funded groups in 15 markets throughout the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States. More information is available on the Internet at http://www.cvty.com.

This press release contains 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 1995.

These statements relate to future events or future financial performance and may be significantly impacted by certain risks and uncertainties described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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