M&A

Personalized health navigation company Transcarent is planning to purchase health benefits navigator Accolade for $621 million.

Several major payer acquisitions have closed or were announced in the first months of 2025.  CareSource has closed the acquisition of two insurers, and announced plans to acquire a third. Cigna also completed the sale of its Medicare Advantage business…

UnitedHealth Group and the Justice Department disagree on a date for trial that will determine the fate of the company's planned merger with Amedisys. 

CareSource has completed the acquisition of Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, one of the last surviving ACA co-op plans. 

Elevance Health has completed its acquisition of Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health's health plan. 

UnitedHealth Group and home health company Amedisys have agreed to extend the deadline for a planned $3.3 billion merger due to a legal challenge by the Department of Justice.

Centene could turn its attention to acquiring health plans or other assets in 2025, its executives told investors at a Dec. 12 conference. 

Payers expanded their reach into the provider space through acquisitions in 2024. 

Priority Health has closed on its purchase Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana, a Fort Wayne-based payer with more than 50,000 members in Indiana and Ohio.

CareSource has closed on its acquisition of Radiant Alliance, a nonprofit senior care organization composed of Metta Healthcare (parent company of Ohio's Hospice and Pure Healthcare), United Church Homes and Genacross Lutheran Services.