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Address: 1230 W. Washington St. Ste. 401, Tempe, AZ 85281
Phone: (602) 794-1400
Web: www.healthnet.com
Number of Employees: 217

Health Net of Arizona, Inc. is an Arizona corporation that provides health insurance plans for people of all ages and businesses of all sizes. We have been serving Arizonans for 26 years. We are a subsidiary of Health Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT), which insures 6.6 million in 27 states, and is ranked No. 189 on Fortune Magazine's list of America's 500 largest companies.

Health Net of Arizona is proud to be selected as Arizona's No. 1 HMO for three years in a row - 2005, 2006 and 2007, and the No. 2 PPO, based on the state's largest business opinion poll, Ranking Arizona, that is conducted annually by Arizona Business Magazine.

We are also honored that our associates nominated us - and we were subsequently selected - to be a 2006 winner of the Valley's Best Places to Work.

Health Net of Arizona holds the National Committee for Quality Assurance's "Excellent" accreditation, a designation that is reserved for "only those health plans that demonstrate levels of service and clinical quality that meet or exceed NCQA's rigorous requirements for consumer protection and quality improvement...and achieve HEDIS® results in the highest range of performance," says NCQA.

Health Net of Arizona is managed by a team of experienced, local executives that holds decision-making authority for Arizona. Each executive is passionate about our company providing superior customer service to our members and business partner - insurance brokers, physicians, hospitals, health care facilities and health care professionals. Our executive team consists of:

Chuck Sowers, President and Chief Executive Officer
Carolyn Pace, Vice President of Provider Network Management
Gay Ann Williams, Vice President of State Government Affairs and Compliance
Glen Padula, Vice President of Commercial Sales and Marketing
Joan Kmotorka, Vice President of Process Improvement
Lorry Bottrill, Regional Finance Officer
Richard Jacobs, Chief Medical Officer
Thomas Smith, Business Development Officer

Our business goals are simple: 1) Grow! And 2) Be a Great Place to Work!

Our mission is to help people be healthy, secure and comfortable, and we carry out our mission by offering health plans that meet the needs of our members and employers, providing great customer service, being a great place to work, and supporting the communities where we live and conduct business.

Some of the worthwhile organizations and events we sponsor are: Make-A-Wish, where we are presenting sponsor for four years of the Wish Ball; March of Dimes, where we are presenting sponsor and co-creator in 2004 of the Nurses of the Year Awards Gala; United Way of Tucson's Days of Caring presenting sponsor; American Heart Association; American Diabetes Association; Boys & Girls Clubs; Chicanos por La Causa; Christopher's Cure; El Rio Foundation; Foundation for Blind Children; Gabriels Angels; HealthCare Connect; John C. Lincoln Foundation; Junior Achievement of Arizona and Southern Arizona; Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; Keogh Foundation; Pima Community Access Program; Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation; Susan G. Komen Foundation - Ana's Team; TMC Case Management; Tucson Botanical Gardens; Tucson Conquistadors; Walk to End Domestic Violence; and YMCA of Metro Tucson.

As a company, and as individuals who work for a health care company, we are constantly aware of the challenges our country faces in meeting the current and future health care needs of all Americans. We are committed to helping provide the solutions to those challenges. In Arizona, Health Net of Arizona has contributed more than $250,000 to Pima Community Access Program in Tucson and HealthCare Connect in Phoenix to underwrite the membership fee for up to 4,500 uninsured, low-income Arizonans to participate in their medical discount programs. Health Net, Inc. and its executives, are also involved on state, regional and national levels to provide input on improving the health insurance coverage of all Americans.

We are Health Net of Arizona. Thank you for your interest in our company. To contact us, call 602-794-1400 or 1-800-289-2818 or visit www.healthnet.com.