Cambia Health Solutions and Blue Cross of North Carolina have announced a new strategic affiliation that will combine management operations into a single entity retaining the Cambia name.
The two...
On the eve of Christmas, Judge Richard Leon of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia decided against halting the integration of the two companies in a merger valued at $69...
Cigna is officially the new owner of Express Scripts after announcing on December 20 that the $67 billion acquisition has closed.
Cigna calls the acquisition a “blueprint to transform the...
Cigna secured approvals from New York and California to acquire Express Scripts, according to multiple reports.
Zachary Vasile of the Journal Inquirer reports that New Jersey is the remaining state...
Decreased competition in health insurance is likely to do more harm than good, new AMA study concludes.
The America Medical Association released its most recent study of health payer competition, and...
Changing government regulations and demands for benefits in the small to medium business market is likely to lead to consolidation and place a growing emphasis on creating innovative health plans,...
CVS Health has announced that its $69 billion takeover of Aetna has been completed. The acquisition promises to radically transform the healthcare industry by creating new care...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that it will approve the proposed merger between CVS and Aetna as soon as Aetna completes the divestiture of its Medicare Part D business line.
Two...
Aetna has sold its Medicare Part D prescription plan business of 2.2 million beneficiaries to WellCare in an attempt to increase the likelihood of the CVS-Aetna merger closing before year’s...
Centene and Ascension have partnered to offer a Medicare Advantage plan across multiple geographic markets in 2020.
Centene Chairman and CEO Michael F. Neidorff believes that the partnership...
Cigna has submitted a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to complete a $67 billion acquisition of the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts.
The payer filed the merger...
Harvard Pilgrim and Partners HealthCare are engaging in discussion of a possible merger. A deal would combine Massachusetts’s largest payer organization with the state’s largest...
Walmart may be making a move to acquire Humana, one of the nation’s biggest health payers, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Citing sources familiar with the matter – but without...
The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) has warned the Department of Justice (DoJ) that the proposed CVS and Aetna merger would violate consumer protections and damage competition in the healthcare...
Update 8/24/2018: Cigna shareholders have overwhelmingly voted to approve the acquisition of Express Scripts. Approximately 90 percent of shareholders voted in favor of the deal, which is...
Aetna experienced a 4 percent drop in year-to-year earnings because of fallout from its proposed Humana merger, while other payers increased revenues by taking advantage of growing Medicaid, Medicare,...
Humana is the latest commercial payer to end its membership in AHIP, the nation’s largest health insurance trade organization.
“Humana has not actively participated in AHIP since early...
CVS Health is continuing its quest to become a major force in the growing world of consumer-centric healthcare by announcing that it will buy Aetna for $69 billion.
"This combination brings...
Payers have significant control of their respective healthcare markets as 69 percent of payers offering HMO, PPO, POS, and public health exchanges operate in very high concentrated markets, AMA found...
After a court ruling in Delaware, Anthem has notified Cigna that their proposed $54 billion merger is off, but that doesn’t mean the two insurance companies are amicably parting ways.
Anthem has...
