The new Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan & Chase healthcare company will have its inaugural CEO in the next two weeks, Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO Warren Buffett told...
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...
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...
The four largest payers in the US have continued to get bigger over the past few years, said Leemore S. Dafny, a professor of the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at Harvard...
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 signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 40 percent minority in the Kindred at Home division of Kindred Healthcare, the nation’s largest home health care provider. The $800 million...
Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, has agreed to acquire DaVita Medical Group for $4.9 billion, expanding the health care services company’s footprint in the direct care delivery...
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...
The House Judiciary Committee has voted 16-10 in favor of a bill that would revise and standardize part of the process of reviewing mergers for potential antitrust violations.
The Standard...
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 House of Representatives has voted 236-175 to move the Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2017 to the Senate in an effort to increase health insurance options for small businesses.
The Act is...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) released a public document urging the U.S Court of Appeals in Washington D.C, to affirm the block on the Cigna-Anthem merger.
In an amicus barae, the AHA...
Proposed legislation supported by the American Hospital Association passed the House Judiciary Committee earlier that if approved by Congress make health insurance companies liable for anti-competitive...
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...
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...
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...
