WLP

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.wellpoint.com
Employees: 42,900
Employee growth: 2.9%

Like B. B. King but without the guitar, health benefits provider WellPoint is the king of the Blues. Through its subsidiaries, the firm provides health coverage, primarily under the Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) name, to about 35 million members. The largest health insurer in the US, it is a Blue Cross or BCBS licensee in 14 states and provides plans under the Unicare name in other parts of the country. WellPoint offers a broad range of managed care plans (including PPO, HMO, indemnity, and hybrid plans) to employers, individuals, and Medicare and Medicaid recipients. It also provides administrative services to self-insured groups, as well as specialty insurance products.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $61,251.1M
One year growth: 0.2%
Net income: $2,490.7M
Income growth: (25.5%)

Officers:
Chairman: Larry C. Glasscock
President, CEO, and Director: Angela F. Braly
EVP and CFO: Wayne S. DeVeydt

Competitors:
Aetna
CIGNA
UnitedHealth Group

The initialism WLP may stand for several things, such as the following:

• Wafer level package or Chip scale package, a type of integrated circuit (microchip) packaging
• Weakest liberal precondition, a computer programming concept
• WellPoint, an insurance company whose stock symbol is WLP
• Windows Logo Program, a Microsoft Windows branding and certification program
• Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace, an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that is dedicated to women's leadership and empowerment.

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