LAS VEGAS, Sep 24, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Senior Dimensions, a Medicare Advantage HMO Plan offered by Health Plan
of Nevada (HPN), is reducing co-payments for several widely used
brand-name maintenance drugs.

Effective Oct. 1, 2008, several brand-name prescriptions that currently
require co-payments of $20 to $30 may be purchased for co-payments of $3
to $5. A three-month supply of these prescriptions available via mail
order that previously required co-payments of $50 to $75 will have $5 to
$9 co-payments, depending on the plan.

Maintenance drugs help patients with chronic illnesses manage their
health, improve their quality of life and avoid costly hospital stays.
Many of these prescriptions are used to treat chronic illnesses such as
diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, high
blood pressure and seizures.

The more widely used maintenance drugs with reduced co-pays include:
Avapro and Benicar, both used to treat hypertension; Actos and Lantus,
used to treat diabetes; Symbicort, used to treat COPD; and Proventil
HFA, for COPD and asthma. Plan participants seeking a complete list of
prescription drugs with lowered co-payments may contact their Personal
Assistant at 800-650-6232 or visit www.seniordimensions.com.

"Health Plan of Nevada is reducing co-pays for
many widely used maintenance drugs so that more seniors can continue
their drug regimens and improve their quality of life,"
said Steven Evans, M.D., vice president of medical affairs and pharmacy
director for HPN, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare. "Too
often many seniors who are on a limited income put aside the drugs they
need to stay healthy in order to afford gasoline, food or rent. We are
taking action to ensure our Medicare Advantage customers have access to
the vital prescription drugs they rely on every day."

Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare Advantage program may
consider plan options during an annual election period, which begins
Nov. 15 and runs through Dec. 31, 2008, for plan selections for 2009.

About Senior Dimensions, HPN

Senior Dimensions (www.seniordimensions.com)
is a Medicare Advantage Plan with a Medicare contract offered by Health
Plan of Nevada Inc. In 1985, Senior Dimensions introduced the first
Medicare Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) plan in Nevada. Health
Plan of Nevada Inc. (www.healthplanofnevada.com)
is a health maintenance organization that offers plans to employer
groups, individuals and Medicare beneficiaries in Nevada.

About UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com)
provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and
services to individuals, public sector employers and businesses of all
sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. The
company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services on
behalf of more than 25 million individual consumers, contracting
directly with more than 560,000 physicians and care professionals and
4,800 hospitals to offer them broad, convenient access to services
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth
Group (NYSE:UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company.

SOURCE: UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare 
Peter O'Neill, 702-242-7156 
peter.oneill@uhc.com

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