Coventry Health Care Clarifies Erroneous Link to Wall Street Journal Online (WSJ.com) Story

Coventry Health Care, Inc. (NYSE:CVH) is clarifying that an article regarding a lawsuit filed against Coventry First LLC was mistakenly linked last night by the WSJ.com to the ‘CVH’ ticker symbol and that the company referenced in the story, Coventry First LLC, is in no way affiliated with Coventry Health Care, Inc. Coventry Health Care is a national managed health care company based in Bethesda, Maryland operating health plans, insurance companies, network rental/managed care and workers’ compensation services companies. Coventry provides a full range of risk and fee-based managed care products and services, including HMO, PPO, POS, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Prescription Drug Plans, Medicaid, Workers’ Compensation services and Network Rental to a broad cross section of individuals, employer and government-funded groups, government agencies, and other insurance carriers and administrators in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. More information is available on the Internet at www.cvty.com.