Coventry Health Care to Speak at the Merrill Lynch Health Services Investor Conference

Coventry's presentation is scheduled to begin at 4:00 p.m. EST onTuesday, November 29, 2005. The public may access a live webcast ofthe presentation on the Corporate Home Page of Coventry's website atwww.cvty.com. A replay of the presentation will be available at thesame website following the presentation until Tuesday, December 6,2005.

Coventry Health Care is a national managed health care companybased in Bethesda, Maryland operating health plans, insurancecompanies, network rental / managed care services companies, andworkers' compensation services companies. Coventry provides a fullrange of risk and fee-based managed care products and services,including HMO, PPO, POS, Medicare Advantage, Medicare PrescriptionDrug Plans, Medicaid, Workers' Compensation and Network Rental to abroad cross section of employer and government-funded groups,government agencies, and other insurance carriers and administratorsin all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.More information is available on the Internet at www.cvty.com andwww.firsthealth.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, madepursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private SecuritiesLitigation Reform Act of 1995, relating to future events or futurefinancial performance. Actual performance may be significantlyimpacted by certain risks and uncertainties, including those describedin the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year endedDecember 31, 2004 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC).