Kathryn Sullivan Joins UnitedHealthcare as CEO, Central Region; Jeff Lucht Joins...

Kathryn Sullivan Joins UnitedHealthcare as CEO, Central Region; Jeff Lucht Joins as Senior Vice President

Steven Nelson to Head UnitedHealthcare's West Region
MINNEAPOLIS--(Business Wire)--
UnitedHealthcare, a division of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH),
today announced the appointment of Kathryn Sullivan as CEO, Central
Region, and Jeff Lucht as Senior Vice President. Steven Nelson, who
has served as president of AmeriChoice, a UnitedHealthcare sister
company, has been appointed CEO of UnitedHealthcare's West Region.

A health care veteran with more than 25 years of experience,
Sullivan joins UnitedHealthcare from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association (BCBSA), where she served as senior vice president and
chief financial officer, as well as treasurer. Before joining BCBSA in
2004, Sullivan was president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross
and Blue Shield of Louisiana, which she joined in 1982. Sullivan will
be responsible for operations in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. She will report directly
to Gail K. Boudreaux, executive vice president of UnitedHealth Group
and president of UnitedHealthcare, and will be located in Chicago.

Lucht will lead a new initiative to assess and strengthen
UnitedHealthcare's market position in its Small Group business. He
will be responsible for leading the review of pricing, product
features and positioning in each of UnitedHealthcare's markets, with a
focus on improving its competitive position. Lucht comes to
UnitedHealthcare after more than 20 years with Aetna, where he served
most recently as president, national accounts, Mid-Atlantic region.
Lucht's broad and diverse track record of success in health care
includes regional management, actuarial, underwriting, sales, provider
network and operations experience with mid-sized and national
accounts. He will be based in Maryland and also will report to
Boudreaux.

Nelson brings 20 years of health care experience in profit and
not-for-profit executive roles. Prior to serving as president of
AmeriChoice, he was president of Health Net Inc.'s eastern region, and
also led the company's national Medicare business. As CEO of
UnitedHealthcare's West region, Nelson will oversee health plans in
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The West regional
headquarters will be in Cypress, CA; Nelson will report directly to
Boudreaux.

"UnitedHealthcare is fortunate to be able to continue to draw top
talent from across the health care industry," said Ms. Boudreaux.
"Kathryn Sullivan and Steven Nelson are extremely successful and
experienced health care leaders and Jeff Lucht is an executive with
broad and diverse health care experience. I am confident that their
leadership will help us to enhance our customers' experience and
continue to grow our business."

Sullivan and Nelson join Jeff Alter and Dan Ohman, who lead
UnitedHealthcare's Northeast and Southeast regions, respectively.
Alter was previously chief operating officer of UnitedHealthcare's
Northeast region, prior to which he was Vice President of Strategic
Financial Planning at Oxford Health Plans. Ohman has been with
UnitedHealthcare for 24 years, serving in numerous positions in sales
and operations. Before becoming regional CEO in May 2007, he served as
President and Chief Executive Officer of UnitedHealthcare of Georgia,
Inc. for five years.

About UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented
health benefit plans and services to individuals, public sector
employers and businesses of all sizes, including more than half of the
Fortune 100 companies. The company organizes access to quality,
affordable healthcare services on behalf of approximately 26 million
individual consumers, contracting directly with more than 560,000
physicians and care professionals and 4,800 hospitals to offer them
broad, convenient access to services nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is
one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified
Fortune 50 health and well-being company.

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