Coventry Health Care to Speak at the Barclays Capital Global Healthcare Conference

Coventry Health Care, Inc. (NYSE:CVH) announced today that John Stelben, Interim Chief Financial Officer, is scheduled to present at the Barclays Capital Global Healthcare Conference in Miami, Florida, at 9:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, March 23, 2010.

The public may access a live webcast of the presentation and accompanying slides on the Investor Relations page of Coventry’s website at www.coventryhealthcare.com. A replay of the presentation will be available at the same website following the presentation until Tuesday, March 30, 2010.

Coventry Health Care (www.coventryhealthcare.com) is a diversified national managed healthcare company based in Bethesda, Maryland, operating health plans, insurance companies, network rental and workers’ compensation services companies. Coventry provides a full range of risk and fee-based managed care products and services to a broad cross section of individuals, employer and government-funded groups, government agencies, and other insurance carriers and administrators.