AMERIGROUP Corporation Elects Hala Moddelmog to Board of Directors

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Aug. 5, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP) announced today that Hala Moddelmog, President and Chief Executive Officer of Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R), has been unanimously elected to the Company’s Board of Directors.

“Hala Moddelmog has demonstrated outstanding leadership ability and has distinguished herself through major accomplishments in an unusually wide range of large, complex organizations,” said James G. Carlson, AMERIGROUP Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. “Her work in the corporate world and as head of a global cancer advocacy organization reflect a unique perspective that will be of particular benefit to all of us at AMERIGROUP.”

“At this time of great change in American healthcare, I’m pleased to be working with AMERIGROUP,” Moddelmog said. “The Company’s focus on the needs of low-income Americans and its emphasis on preventive care are particularly valuable, not only to the people served by AMERIGROUP, but to the entire healthcare system.”

The Board of Directors elected Moddelmog effective Aug. 5, 2009, and she will stand for re-election to the Board at the Company’s 2010 annual meeting of stockholders.

For the past three years, Moddelmog, 53, has led Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a nonprofit organization that is a national leader in the fight against breast cancer. She is herself a survivor of the disease. Prior to her current position, she enjoyed a 20-year career in the food services industry that included serving as President of Church’s Chicken, an international restaurant chain, and founding her own consulting and investment company, Catalytic Ventures.

Moddelmog has held executive management and marketing positions with Church’s Chicken, Arby’s Franchise Association and BellSouth. She has previously served on the boards of directors of Fiesta Brands, Inc. and HyperActive Technologies, and on the boards of trustees of Georgia Southern University Foundation and Clark Atlanta University. She currently serves as a director of AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.

A resident of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Moddelmog graduated from Georgia Southern University and completed graduate work at the University of Georgia.

About AMERIGROUP Corporation

AMERIGROUP Corporation, headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, improves healthcare access and quality for the financially vulnerable, seniors and people with disabilities by developing innovative managed health services for the public sector. Through its subsidiaries, AMERIGROUP Corporation serves approximately 1.7 million people in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. For more information, visit www.amerigroupcorp.com.

About Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R)

Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which is now the world’s largest breast cancer organization and the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer with more than $1.3 billion invested to date. For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit www.komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN.

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