INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) today announced the appointment of Lori Beer as executive vice president of the newly formed Enterprise Business Services (EBS) organization. EBS is an integrated team that brings together five core business support functions -- Service Operations, Operational Excellence, Information Technology, Information Management, and Sourcing and Supplier Management.
"It is essential that we continually evaluate our administrative structure to ensure we appropriately meet the needs of our customers and members. By creating this new, integrated organization, we will operate more efficiently while providing industry-leading business support services," said Angela F. Braly, chief executive officer for WellPoint. "Our customers expect quality products and services at affordable prices and WellPoint is committed to meeting their needs."
Beer has more than 20 years of technology and related business experience, including more than 12 years at WellPoint. She has a proven track record of optimizing technology investments and driving cost-efficiency within the health care, telecommunications and government industries. Additionally, she was recognized by Profiles in Diversity Journal as one of its "Women Worth Watching In 2010," and named by Insurance & Technology Magazine as one of its "Elite Eight."
A.J. Lang succeeds Beer as chief information officer. He joined WellPoint in 2008 and brings 25 years of IT experience managing global business initiatives in the health care, banking and credit card industries. He most recently served as senior vice president of Systems Delivery for Information Technology (IT) at WellPoint.
"Aligning our core capabilities will allow us to simplify our technology and streamline our business processes to deliver the most efficient and effective services possible to our customers," said Lori Beer. "This new Enterprise Business Services unit will further enhance our ability to deliver on our promise to excel at day-to-day execution."
About WellPoint, Inc.
WellPoint works to simplify the connection between Health, Care and Value. We help to improve the health of our communities, deliver better care to members, and provide greater value to our customers and shareholders. WellPoint is the nation's largest health benefits company, with more than 33 million members in its affiliated health plans, and a total of more than 69 million individuals served through all subsidiaries. As an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, WellPoint serves members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as the Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 10 New York City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as the Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), and Wisconsin. In a majority of these service areas, WellPoint does business as Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield or Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield (in the New York service areas). WellPoint also serves customers throughout the country as UniCare. Additional information about WellPoint is available at http://www.wellpoint.com/.
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