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 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...
The American Medical Association (AMA) announced today in a press release the results of a new study show that the health insurance acquisitions between Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana would obstruct...
On July 21, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced during a press conference that they would be filing a lawsuit against two health insurance mergers between Aetna-Humana and Cigna-Anthem. The DOJ...
The Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana health insurance mergers are facing more and more scrutiny throughout the medical industry and among federal officials. While the US Department of Justice filed a...
During the summer of 2015, Aetna and Humana, as well as Anthem and Cigna, started a merger process that would reduce four of the nation’s largest insurers down to just two. If the mergers are successful, only three payers would...
The health insurance market seems to be heading toward more and more consolidation as the major payers Humana and Aetna along with Cigna and Anthem seem to be bent on merging, which would essentially...
The latest news coming from the major health payer Aetna is its move to drop out of the majority of the health insurance exchanges it had been participating in this year. According to a press release...
Health insurance companies and private physician practices or hospitals have often been on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to operating their organizations and managing their patient base....
As previously reported, the insurance companies Aetna and Humana are attempting to preserve their health insurance merger by divesting millions of dollars in assets in order to satisfy the concerns of...
The future of the health insurance industry changes depending upon the regulatory challenges happening at a particular time as well as consumer interests and provider needs transforming the healthcare...
The national health payer Aetna continues to make headlines in the month of August after the public learned last month about the Department of Justice’s move to block Aetna’s major health...
Last month, the news cycle was busy for the health insurance industry. Some of the key areas that seemed to make the biggest splash for the health insurance market includes the ongoing disputes...
Last week, the Department of Justice announced that it will be filing lawsuits against the Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana health insurance mergers. The issue at hand is that these health insurance...
