WellPoint Announces Appearance at Upcoming Conference

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP)

announced today that senior management is scheduled to present at the 2010
Annual Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference on November 10, 2010, at 10:30 a.m.
Mountain Standard Time (12:30 p.m. EST).

All interested parties are invited to listen to a webcast of the presentation by
visiting www.wellpoint.comand selecting the “Investor Info” 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, 2009, and its Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q for reporting periods of 2010.

About WellPoint, Inc.

WellPoint works to simplify the connection between Health, Care and Value. We
help to improve the health of our communities, deliver better care to members,
and provide greater value to our customers and shareholders. WellPoint is the
nation’s largest health benefits company, with more than 33 million members in
its affiliated health plans, and a total of more than 70 million individuals
served through all 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 does business as Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
or Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield (in the New York service areas). WellPoint also
serves customers throughout much of the country as UniCare. Additional
information about WellPoint is available at www.wellpoint.com.