AMERIGROUP Launches Disaster Response Team

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             AMERIGROUP Launches Disaster Response Team
                   Company Deploys Teams of Trained Employees
                   To Assist Victims of Hurricane Ike, Other Storms

 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Sept. 17, 2008) – AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP) today
 announced that the Company has deployed members of its Disaster Response Team to Houston to
 assist seniors and people with disabilities who have been displaced by Hurricane Ike.

 A team of AMERIGROUP associates, including medical professionals and others trained in
 logistical support services, departed Virginia Beach early Monday and has begun working with local
 contacts to address the basic needs of people driven out of their residences by Hurricane Ike. The
 Disaster Response Team is focusing particular attention on people with special medical needs whose
 lives have been seriously disrupted by the storm.

 AMERIGROUP’s Disaster Response Team was established as a joint initiative of the Company and
 its charitable arm, the AMERIGROUP Foundation, earlier this year. It was activated for the first
 time within the past month and has already assisted victims of three major storms that struck the
 southern United States. Along with the unit currently responding to Hurricane Ike, AMERIGROUP
 previously dispatched one unit to assist evacuees from Hurricane Gustav who were housed in
 shelters in Memphis, Tennessee, and another to support disaster preparedness efforts in Savannah,
 Georgia, prior to the arrival of Tropical Storm Hanna.

 “What began as a call to service by our CEO, Jim Carlson, has grown into a meaningful way for us
 to demonstrate our commitment to our neighbors and to utilize our expertise to help communities
 in need,” said John E. Littel, AMERIGROUP Foundation Chairman. “While this is a modest start
 for us, we are hopeful that our efforts will lead to a potentially replicable model for the private
 sector to supplement disaster relief services for a population that desperately needs attention.”



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                                  LIVE WELL • VIVA BIEN
AMERIGROUP Corporation is a healthcare organization that serves about 1.7 million people
enrolled in publicly-funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid nationwide. The Company
employs about 800 doctors, nurses and social workers who reach out to members and offer
healthcare programs that help them lead healthier lives.

AMERIGROUP’s Disaster Response Team is designed to mobilize and deliver the expertise of its
volunteers to victims of natural disasters and other emergencies, when the need for assistance is
extreme. More than 100 AMERIGROUP employees volunteered for the team and completed
disaster preparedness training earlier this year. After consulting with national disability advocates
and AMERIGROUP’s National Advisory Board on Improving Healthcare Services for Seniors and
People with Disabilities, the team focused on disaster response services for people with special
needs, a traditionally underserved population.

The Disaster Response Team unit currently deployed in Houston will assist in working with those
who have been forced into temporary shelters by the storm. In addition, the team is supplementing
the Company’s Houston health plan in conducting outreach to its most vulnerable members.
AMERIGROUP has extensive healthcare operations in Texas, serving about 458,000 people who
are enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance programs.

For more details and stories from the inaugural deployment of AMERIGROUP’s Disaster Response
Team, visit www.amerigroupcorp.com/news/Pages/MediaKit.aspx.

About AMERIGROUP Corporation

AMERIGROUP Corporation, headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, improves healthcare access
and quality for the financially vulnerable, seniors and people with disabilities by developing
innovative managed health services for the public sector. Through its subsidiaries, AMERIGROUP
Corporation serves approximately 1.7 million people in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey,
New Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. For more
information, visit www.amerigroupcorp.com.

About AMERIGROUP Foundation

The AMERIGROUP Foundation is the philanthropic arm of AMERIGROUP Corporation, a multi-
state managed healthcare company based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The Foundation works to create
healthy communities by fostering access to healthcare, encouraging safe and healthy children and
families, and promoting community improvement and healthy neighborhoods. For more information
about the AMERIGROUP Foundation, visit www.amerigroupcorp.com/foundation.


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