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ARTICLE UnitedHealthcare Introduces UMR; National Third-Party Administration Strategy Expands Nationwide

WAUSAU, Wis. (May 15, 2008) – UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, has combined the third-party administration (TPA) capabilities of its Fiserv Health, Midwest Security and United Medical Resources businesses to form a single national business unit, UMR, which will provide integrated health benefit management for self-funded, dental, vision, disability and medical plans.

UMR aims to deliver, on a seamless basis, value-added services such as national health care provider network discounts, advanced claims-control functions, integrated chronic condition management and health and wellness programs, and more flexible benefit solutions that include up to 4,000 customized plan designs. It will also provide additional programs such as integrated care management, pharmacy benefits, stop-loss services, ancillary products and customized reporting services. The new UMR name and logo will be introduced to customers over the course of 2008.

"Our goal with UMR is to provide those self-funded employer customers who prefer third-party administrators with deeper and broader resources, products and services available under a single banner," said Ken Burdick, CEO of UnitedHealthcare. "As a distinct business unit, UMR will have greater ability to deliver local and regional service to our customers while leveraging UnitedHealthcare¿s national strengths, including our network of more than 560,000 physicians and 4,800 hospitals throughout the country."

UMR will be led by Jay Anliker, formerly president of Fiserv Health.

"Under UMR we feel we have even greater capabilities to serve specific industries such as hospitals, municipal plans, Taft-Hartley plans and retiree benefits administration," said Anliker. "Fiserv Health, Midwest Security and United Medical Resources have always made service their focus. As UMR, we will unify our focus to better deliver on our five points of value: cost savings, flexibility, caring service, intelligent technology and unique solutions for unique businesses."

About UMR
The largest TPA in the United States, UMR provides an array of integrated health plan management, claim processing and administration services for self-funded medical, dental, vision and disability plans. UMR offers integrated care management, pharmacy benefits administration and a host of ancillary services including claim recovery management, reinsurance products and services, claim repricing and provider data management software and services and non-network claims cost containment. UMR is a UnitedHealthcare company, a business of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). More information is available online at www.umr.com.

About UnitedHealthcare UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com) provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services. The company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services on behalf of more than 25 million individual consumers, contracting directly with more than 560,000 physicians and care professionals and 4,800 hospitals nationwide to offer consumers broad, convenient access to services nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group.