Coventry Health Care Elects Joseph R. Swedish to Board of Directors

Coventry Health Care, Inc. (NYSE: CVH) announced today that Joseph R. Swedish was elected to the Company’s Board of Directors at its meeting held on February 25, 2010.

Since December 2004, Mr. Swedish has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Trinity Health (Novi, MI). Previously, Mr. Swedish was President and Chief Executive Officer of Centura Health in Colorado from January 1999-2004. From 1994 to December 1998, Mr. Swedish worked for Hospital Corporation of America, first as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Central Florida Division and then as President and CEO of the East Florida Division.

Mr. Swedish received his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and received his MHA from Duke University. Mr. Swedish is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

"We are very pleased to be able to add someone of Joe’s caliber to our Board of Directors,” said Allen Wise, Coventry’s chief executive officer. "Mr. Swedish will bring a unique and invaluable perspective to our Board given his depth of leadership roles at a number of integrated health care systems and breadth of experience across the continuum of health services and managed care enterprises. We welcome Joe to the Board and look forward to working with him.”

Coventry retained Caldwell Partners to assist the Board of Directors in this search.

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.