Earnings Call Excerpt
Centene Corporation (CNC)
Financial Guidance Call
December 19, 2008 8:30 am ET
Executives
Edmund E. Kroll, Jr. – Senior Vice President, Finance & Investor Relations
Michael F. Neidorff – Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Eric R. Slusser – Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Mark W. Eggert – Executive Vice President, Health Plans
Jesse N. Hunter – Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
William N. Scheffel – Executive Vice President, Specialty Business Unit
Analysts
Thomas Carroll - Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc.
Greg Genova - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Brian Wright - Banc of America Securities
Greg Nersessian - Credit Suisse
Carl McDonald - Oppenheimer & Co., Inc.
Matt Perry - Wachovia Capital Markets
Joshua Raskin - Barclays Capital
John Rex - J.P. Morgan
[Chris Synphony] – Eagle Asset Management
Daryn Miller - Goldman Sachs
Presentation
Operator
Good morning and thank you for holding. My name is Sherry and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Centene 2000 financial guidance conference call. (Operator Instructions) At this time, I’ll turn the call over to
Mr. Ed Kroll. You may begin your conference.
Edmund E. Kroll, Jr.
Thank you operator and good morning everyone. I’m Ed Kroll, Senior Vice President, Finance, and Investor Relations at Centene Corporation and again thank you for joining our call today for our 2009 financial guidance. You should have a copy of the press release we issued this morning. If you’ve not received it, please call Libby Abelt at 212-759-5665 and one will be sent to you immediately.
Michael Neidorff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Eric Slusser, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Centene will host this morning’s call. The call is expected to last no more than 45 minutes and may be accessed through our website at Centene.com. After our prepared remarks, there will be a Question-and-Answer session but we ask that you refrain from any detailed modeling questions. You can ask those off-line after the call by contacting me directly.
A replay will be available shortly after this call’s completion on our website at Centene.com or by dialing 800-642-1687 in the U.S. and Canada and 706-645-9291 from abroad; the access code 74434480.
Any remarks that we make about future expectations, plans, prospects today constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the Safe Harbor provision under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors and we urge you to look at our Form 10-Q that we filed on October 28 of this year, 2008, and our other public SEC filings.
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