WellPoint to Hold Conference Call and Webcast to Discuss First Quarter Results On April 23, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS, March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE:
WLP) will release first quarter 2008 financial results on April 23, 2008,
at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Management will review these
results and its outlook during a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EDT that same
morning. The conference call should be accessed at least 15 minutes prior
to its start with the following numbers:




888-423-3268 (Domestic) 800-475-6701 (Domestic Replay)
651-291-5254 (International) 320-365-3844 (International Replay) An access code is not required for the April 23, 2008, conference call.
The access code for the replay is 908942. The replay will be available from
1:45 p.m. EDT on April 23, 2008, until the end of the day on May 7, 2008.
The call will also be available through a live webcast at http://www.wellpoint.com
under "Investor Info." A webcast replay will be available following the
call.

New Reportable Segments

The Company also announced that it has posted to the "Investor Info"
section of http://www.wellpoint.com schedules with 2007 reportable segment
highlights, as reclassified to conform to the Company's 2008 reportable
segment structure.



Contacts:

Investor Relations
Michael Kleinman, 317-488-6713

Media
Shannon Troughton, 317-488-6789
About WellPoint, Inc.

WellPoint's mission is to improve the lives of the people it serves and
the health of its communities. WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health
benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States.
Through its nationwide networks, the company delivers a number of leading
health benefit solutions through a broad portfolio of integrated health
care plans and related services, along with a wide range of specialty
products such as life and disability insurance benefits, pharmacy benefit
management, dental, vision, behavioral health benefit services, as well as
long term care insurance and flexible spending accounts. Headquartered in
Indianapolis, Indiana, WellPoint 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, New
York (as Blue Cross Blue Shield in 10 New York City metropolitan and
surrounding counties and as Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield in
selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern
Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin; and through UniCare.
Additional information about WellPoint is available at http://www.wellpoint.com.





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