• Molina Healthcare eyes more M&A

    More mergers and acquisitions are a key part of Molina Healthcare's future strategy, executives told investors. 
  • Analysts not ruling out Cigna, Humana merger

    A merger between Humana and Cigna could still be in the cards according to one analyst, Bloomberg reported April 22. 
  • Elevance Health strikes primary care deal with private equity firm

    Elevance Health will enter a partnership with private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice to develop advanced primary care models. 
  • Elevance Health to acquire New York Medicaid plan

    Elevance Health plans to acquire Centers Plan for Healthy Living, a New York-based Medicaid long-term care plan. 
  • 5 payer M&A updates

    From UnitedHealth Group's plans to buy a physician group from Steward Health Care to Elevance buying Kroger's speciality pharmacy business, here are five payer merger and acquisition updates that Becker's reported since March 15: 
  • 3 Optum M&A updates

    Optum could soon purchase Steward's physician group, a clinic chain in Oregon and home health provider Amedisys.
  • Elevance Health closes life, disability benefits business divestiture

    Elevance Health has closed the divestiture of its disability, accidental death and dismemberment, absence management, and paid family leave businesses to the Standard. 
  • 5 providers being acquired by payers

    Payers are continuing to snap up providers. 
  • UnitedHealth, Amedisys deal under more scrutiny

    Oregon regulators will open a review into UnitedHealth Group's proposed acquisition of Amedisys, after a preliminary report found the deal could hurt competition in the state's markets. 
  • Elevance Health's specialty care acquisition spree

    Elevance Health has picked up several specialty pharmacy and care-based companies in recent years, bolstering the capacity of its health services arm, Carelon. 
  • Elevance's CarelonRx to buy Kroger’s specialty pharmacy 

    Kroger is selling its specialty pharmacy business to CarelonRx, the PBM subsidiary of Elevance Health.
  • Optum receives green light for emergency purchase of Oregon clinic

    Oregon state regulators will allow UnitedHealth Group's Optum to bypass a state review of its planned purchase of Corvallis Clinic, citing an immediate need to maintain the provider's financial solvency.
  • Optum looks to fast-track Oregon clinic purchase amid solvency 'emergency'

    UnitedHealth Group's Optum is seeking to fast-track its proposed purchase of Corvallis (Ore.) Clinic, citing an urgent need to "maintain the solvency" of the physician-owned organization.
  • Elevance closes Paragon Health acquisition

    Elevance Health has closed the acquisition of infusion center and specialty pharmacy operator Paragon Healthcare. 
  • CareSource to pick up ACA co-op plan

    CareSource plans to affiliate with one of the last surviving ACA co-op plans. 
  • 9 payer M&A updates

    From the Elevance-Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana deal put on hold again to Cigna reaching a deal to sell its Medicare business, here are nine payer mergers and acquisitions updates Becker's has reported since Jan. 29: 
  • Some health systems ditch their health plans

    Some health systems are getting out of the insurance business. 
  • SCAN, CareOregon call off merger

    CareOregon and SCAN Group have called off a proposed merger between the two nonprofit insurers, after state regulators expressed skepticism about the deal. 
  • $2.5B BCBS Louisiana, Elevance Health sale on hold again

    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana has put plans to be acquired by Elevance Health on pause again after the proposed sale faced scrutiny from physicians and state officials. 
  • Payers offloading international assets: 4 updates

    UnitedHealth Group, Centene and Cigna have recently completed major divestitures of assets outside the U.S. as the companies focus on domestic growth or core business operations.

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