Just seven days after a court upheld the initial ruling which blocked Anthem’s acquisition of Cigna, the nation’s second largest insurer is not giving up. Anthem has confirmed...
On Friday, a federal DC district appeals court upheld a February 2017 decision which blocked the acquisition of Cigna by health insurance giant Anthem. Antitrust concerns led 11 states and the...
Anthem has opened an appeal in the U.S District Court citing opportunities for increased consumer savings and quality of care weeks after the DOJ blocked its planned merger with Cigna.
Anthem argued...
The full opinion of United States District Court for the District of Columbia blocking Anthem’s acquisition of Cigna became publicly available earlier this week and provides details into the...
UPDATE: Anthem has secured a restraining order against Cigna preventing the final dissolusion of the merger. The temporary order will be reviewed during a Delaware Chancery Court hearing on...
Humana will halt sales of individual health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges by 2018, which will leave more than 150,000 Humana customers without a carrier....
Aetna and Humana have scrapped their merger plans after the Department of Justice blocked the deal due to antitrust concerns. Aetna will pay Humana a $1 billion termination fee, included as part...
A federal judge in Washington DC recently blocked a potential $48 billion health insurance merger between Cigna and Anthem, according to a Department of Justice (DoJ) press release.
The two payers...
Payers that dominate the local market are able to negotiate lower physician office visit prices than their smaller peers, found investigators from Harvard Medical School. Health insurance companies...
A shareholder class action lawsuit has been filed against the national health insurance company Aetna Inc., according to a press release from the law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer &...
On January 23, Judge John D. Bates of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Aetna-Humana health insurance merger would lead to antitrust problems and was not allowed to...
Today, a federal judge ruled that the health insurance merger between the healthcare payers Aetna and Humana should be blocked on the grounds that it would create antitrust issues, according...
The Anthem-Cigna merger lawsuit has brought significant evidence to light ever since the case began on November 21, 2016. The Department of Justice has been able to illuminate that the health insurance...
The health insurance market has gone through significant changes in 2016. A number of payers have pulled back from the health insurance exchanges such as UnitedHealth and Humana. The Department of...
The American Medical Association (AMA) announced in a press release earlier this week their position against the health insurance merger between Aetna and Humana, particularly regarding its impact on...
On Monday, November 21, the court trial filed by the Department of Justice against the health insurance merger between Anthem and Cigna began. The drive to stop the $48 billion health insurance merger...
The lawsuit against the Anthem-Cigna health insurance merger had its first pretrial conference this past Monday, according to The Coalition to Protect Patient Choice. Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that...
Among the payers facing a Department of Justice lawsuit against their health insurance mergers, Aetna and Humana have requested sanctions due to the government allegedly delaying the release of...
In 2015, the national insurer Anthem began proceedings to acquire Cigna while Aetna planned to merge with Humana. Very quickly, opposition lined up against the two planned health insurance mergers,...
The national health payer Aetna may have chosen to reduce its participation in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges due to the Department of Justice’s decision to pursue a...
