WellPoint Announces Appearance at Upcoming Conference

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) announced
today that senior management is scheduled to present at the Oppenheimer 22nd
Annual Healthcare Conference on December 13, 2011, at 1:35 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time (“EST”)

All interested parties are invited to listen to a live webcast of the
presentation by visiting www.wellpoint.com and selecting the “Investors” link.
Following the presentation, a webcast replay will be available at
www.wellpoint.com for two weeks.

To listen to the live webcast, please visit WellPoint’s website at least 15
minutes early to download and install any necessary audio software. Individuals
who listen to the presentation will be presumed to have read WellPoint’s most
recent filings with the SEC, including but not limited to its Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, and its Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q for the three months ended September 30, 2011.

About WellPoint, Inc.

WellPoint works to simplify the connection between Health, Care and Value. We
help to improve the health of our members and our communities, and provide
greater value to our customers and shareholders. WellPoint is one of the
nation’s largest health benefits companies, with 34 million members in its
affiliated health plans, and a total of more than 66 million individuals served
through its subsidiaries. As an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue
Shield Association, WellPoint serves 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 the Blue Cross Blue Shield
licensee in 10 New York City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as the
Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in selected upstate counties
only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington,
D.C.), and Wisconsin. In a majority of these service areas, WellPoint’s plans do
business as Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of Georgia, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, or Empire Blue Cross (in
the New York service areas). WellPoint also serves customers throughout the
country as UniCare. Additional information about WellPoint is available at
www.wellpoint.com.