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Additional Information
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated was incorporated in January 1977 in Minnesota. The terms “we,” “our” or the
“Company” refer to UnitedHealth Group Incorporated and our subsidiaries. Our executive offices are located at
UnitedHealth Group Center, 9900 Bren Road East, Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343; our telephone number is
[phone].
You can access our Web site at www.unitedhealthgroup.com to learn more about our Company. From that site,
you can download and print copies of our annual reports to shareholders, annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly
reports on Form 10-Q, and current reports on Form 8-K, along with amendments to those reports. You can also
download from our Web site our Articles of Incorporation, bylaws and corporate governance policies, including
our Principles of Governance, Board of Directors Committee Charters, and Code of Business Conduct and
Ethics. We make periodic reports and amendments available, free of charge, as soon as reasonably practicable
after we file or furnish these reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We will also provide a
copy of any of our corporate governance policies published on our Web site free of charge, upon request. To
request a copy of any of these documents, please submit your request to: UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, 9900
Bren Road East, Minnetonka, MN 55343, Attn: Corporate Secretary.
Our transfer agent, Wells Fargo, can help you with a variety of shareholder-related services, including change of
address, lost stock certificates, transfer of stock to another person and other administrative services. You can
write to our transfer agent at: Wells Fargo Shareowner Services, P.O. Box 64854, St. Paul, Minnesota 55164-
0854, email [email protected], or telephone [phone] or [phone].
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS SEGMENTS
UNIPRISE
Uniprise delivers health care and well-being services nationwide to large national employers, individual
consumers and other health care organizations through three related business units: Uniprise Strategic Solutions
(USS), Definity Health and Exante Financial Services (Exante). Each business unit works with other
UnitedHealth Group businesses to deliver a complementary and integrated array of services. USS delivers
strategic health and well-being solutions to large national employers. Definity Health provides consumer-driven
health plans and consumer activation services to employers and their employees. As of December 31, 2006, USS
and Definity Health served approximately eleven million individuals. Exante delivers health-care-focused
financial services for consumers, employers and providers. Uniprise also offers transactional processing services
to various intermediaries and health care entities. Most Uniprise products and services are delivered through its
affiliates. Uniprise provides administrative and customer care services for certain other businesses of
UnitedHealth Group.
Uniprise specializes in large-volume transaction management, large-scale benefit design and innovative
technology solutions that simplify complex administrative processes and promote improved health outcomes.
Uniprise processes approximately 270 million medical benefit claims each year and responds to approximately
50 million service calls annually. Uniprise provides comprehensive operational services for independent health
plans and third-party administrators, as well as the majority of the commercial health plan consumers served by
UnitedHealthcare. Uniprise maintains Internet-based administrative and financial applications for physician
inquiries and transactions, for customer-specific data analysis for employers, and for consumer access to personal
health care information and services.
USS
USS provides comprehensive and customized administrative, benefits and service solutions for large employers
and other organizations with more than 5,000 employees in multiple locations. USS customers generally retain
the risk of financing the medical benefits of their employees and their dependents and USS provides coordination
and facilitation of medical services; transaction processing; consumer and care provider services; and access to
contracted networks of physicians, hospitals and other health care professionals for a fixed service fee per
individual served. As of December 31, 2006, USS served approximately 405 employers, including approximately
180 of the Fortune 500 companies.
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