M&A

UnitedHealth Group's acquisition of Lafayette, La.-based home-health firm LHC Group is on track to be completed in December, Seeking Alpha reported Nov. 8. 

Cigna's CEO David Cordani addressed questions from investors Nov. 3 over concerns the company is falling behind other insurers by not pursuing major mergers or acquisitions. 

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota is selling its home healthcare subsidiary, Livio Health, to senior health company Lifespark. 

Blackstone could sell its 50 percent stake in software firm HealthEdge, raising the value of the company to $3 billion, Bloomberg reported Oct. 28.

UnitedHealth Group has sold $9 billion of bonds that will help to refinance short-term debt the company took on to partially fund its purchase of Change Healthcare for $7.8 billion, Bloomberg reported Oct. 25.

UnitedHealth Group is spending at least $100 million to integrate Optum Insight with Change Healthcare, company executives said during an Oct. 14 call with investors.

With UnitedHealth Group's purchase of Change Healthcare now complete, TPG Capital has finalized its acquisition of ClaimsXten for $2.2 billion.

The largest healthcare merger of 2022 has been finalized between Optum and Change Healthcare, and CVS Health plans to acquire home health company Signify for $8 million. These are seven mergers and acquisitions reported by Becker's since Sept. 5:

CVS Health is selling benefits administration platform Bswift. Francisco Partners, a tech investment firm, said Oct. 3 it will acquire the company. 

Molina Healthcare has finalized its acquisition of AgeWell New York's Medicaid managed long-term care business for $110 million.