-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Jx6iBeMOeDUG9g7qADYh1VG0MjV7bapvybosnSkwgzRGiXM8aP8GJ1LV3ugZIa6I 6JnOntFc2qAagVa0jKkBfg== 0001054833-10-000002.txt : 20100105 0001054833-10-000002.hdr.sgml : 20100105 20100105172128 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001054833-10-000002 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20100101 FILED AS OF DATE: 20100105 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20100105 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: COVENTRY HEALTH CARE INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001054833 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: HOSPITAL & MEDICAL SERVICE PLANS [6324] IRS NUMBER: 522073000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6705 ROCKLEDGE DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE 900 CITY: BETHESDA STATE: MD ZIP: 20817 BUSINESS PHONE: 3015810600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6705 ROCKLEDGE DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE 900 CITY: BETHESDA STATE: MD ZIP: 20817 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: STOCKER MICHAEL A CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001203665 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16477 FILM NUMBER: 10508299 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: COVENTRY HEALTH CARE, INC. STREET 2: 6705 ROCKLEDGE DR STE. 900 CITY: BETHESDA STATE: MD ZIP: 20817 4 1 primary_doc.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0303 4 2010-01-01 0 0001054833 COVENTRY HEALTH CARE INC CVH 0001203665 STOCKER MICHAEL A 1056 5TH AVENUE, APT. 12C NEW YORK NY 10028 1 0 0 0 Non-Qualified Stock Option 24.29 2010-01-01 4 A 0 12960 0 A 2010-04-01 2020-01-01 Common Stock 12960 34991 D The stock options vest and are exerciseable in equal quarterly increments over a one-year period. Includes the following: Table II-Derivative Securities comprised of 10,000 non-qualified stock options for shares of common stock vesting in equal annual increments over a four-year period, held directly, and 24,991 non-qualified stock options for shares of commons tock vesting in equal quarterly increments over one-year periods, held directly. Shirley R. Smith on behalf of Michael A. Stocker, M.D. by Power of Attorney 2010-01-05 EX-99 2 poa_stocker.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY

POWER OF ATTORNEY

I, Michael A. Stocker, M.D., a Director of Coventry Health Care, Inc. (the "Company"), hereby authorize and designate Shirley R. Smith or Thomas C. Zielinski, and each of them, as my agent and attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution, to:

(1) Prepare and sign on my behalf any Form 3, Form 4 or Form 5 under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to the Company’s securities and, if required, file the same with each stock exchange on which the Company's stock is listed;

(2) Take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed and dated writing delivered to each of the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

Date: October 20, 2009

/s/ Michael A. Stocker, M.D.

Michael A. Stocker, M.D.

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