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HealthAmerica(R) and HealthAssurance(R) Contract With Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Southeastern Pennsylvania

Posted on: Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 12:02 CDT

HARRISBURG, Pa., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance have signed a multi-year agreement with Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Montgomery County.

This agreement is effective July 1, 2005, and enhances HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance's expansion into the southeastern Pennsylvania region. It anticipates continued network development activity throughout 2005.

Pottstown Memorial Medical Center is a 221-bed facility with 134 active physicians. It offers a 24-hour emergency room and full services to residents of the Pottstown area and surrounding Montgomery County.

"This new agreement with Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, and with Community Health Systems, reflects our core business philosophy of finding partners who share our values of quality patient care and customer service," said Robert L. Dawson, president and CEO of HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance. "We are pleased to establish this important relationship with Pottstown Memorial Medical Center to deliver services and give our members in Montgomery County access to superior health care."

For more information about Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, visit their website at http://www.pottstownmemorial.com/.

About HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance

HealthAmerica(R) Pennsylvania, Inc. has a 30-year record of providing health care benefits. HealthAmerica, HealthAssurance(R) Pennsylvania, Inc., and affiliate companies cover over 720,000 members in Pennsylvania and Ohio through PPO, POS, HMO, Medicaid, and Medicare Advantage plans. In addition, HealthAmerica offers a product for individuals and families who are not eligible for employer-sponsored health care benefits, Medicare, or Medicaid, called HealthAmericaOne. HealthAmerica earned an "Excellent" Accreditation for its HMO plan and HealthAssurance earned an "Excellent" Accreditation for the HealthAssurance POS by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to measuring the quality of America's health care. With corporate offices in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance provide managed health care products and services to over 12,000 employers in Pennsylvania and Ohio. HealthAmerica and its affiliates employ over 1,500 people in Pennsylvania. For more information, visit HealthAmerica's website at http://www.healthamerica.cvty.com/.

HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance are subsidiaries of Coventry Health Care, Inc. , a national managed health care company based in Bethesda, Maryland. Coventry Health Care, Inc. provides a full range of risk and fee-based managed care products and services, including HMO, PPO, POS, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Workers' Compensation and Network Rental to a broad cross section of employer and government-funded groups, government agencies, and other insurance carriers and administrators in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. More information is available on the Internet at http://www.cvty.com/.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, relating to future events or future financial performance. Actual performance may be significantly impacted by certain risks and uncertainties, including those described in Coventry Health Care, Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, as filed with the SEC.

HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance

CONTACT: Kendall Marcocci, Director of Communications of HealthAmericaand HealthAssurance, +1-717-540-6746, or Kmarcocci@cvty.com

Web site: http://www.healthamerica.cvty.com/http://www.pottstownmemorial.com/http://www.cvty.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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