Health Net 2007 Annual Report Download - page 98

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
Health Net, Inc.
Woodland Hills, California
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Health Net, Inc. and subsidiaries (the
“Company”) as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the related consolidated statements of operations,
stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2007. Our
audits also included the financial statement schedules listed in the Index at Page F-1. These financial statements
and financial statement schedules are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to
express an opinion on the financial statements and financial statement schedules based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance
about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test
basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating
the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of Health Net, Inc. and subsidiaries at December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the results of their operations
and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2007, in conformity with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also, in our opinion, such financial
statement schedules, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole,
present fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
As discussed in Note 10 to the consolidated financial statements, on January 1, 2007, the Company adopted
Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income
Taxes.” Also, as discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its method
of accounting for share-based compensation in 2006 upon adoption of FASB Statement No. 123(R), “Share-
Based Payment.”
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2007, based on the
criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 27, 2008 expressed an unqualified
opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ D ELOITTE &T OUCHE LLP
Los Angeles, California
February 27, 2008
F-2