M&A

Priority Health is planning to purchase Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana, a Fort Wayne-based payer with more than 52,000 members in Indiana and Ohio.

The Cigna Group does not need to seek out any mergers or acquisitions to reach its financial goals, CFO Brian Evanko told investors. 

A planned merger between Capital District Physicians Health Plan and The Lifetime Healthcare Co. will allow the insurers to beef up their scale and investments in technology, executives say. 

Optum has sold its workers' compensation Settlement Solutions business to ExamWorks Compliance Solutions, an Optum spokesperson told Becker's June 10.

A possible divestiture buyer has backed out of a deal with UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys that aimed to make a proposed acquisition of the home health company more palatable to regulators, the Capitol Forum reported May 31.

Two New York health plans intend to merge, creating an organization with nearly 2 million members and 6,000 employees. 

UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys plan to divest more than 100 clinic locations to make its proposed acquisition more palatable to regulators, Capitol Forum reported. 

CVS Health has acquired Medicare Advantage broker platform Hella Health. 

More mergers and acquisitions are a key part of Molina Healthcare's future strategy, executives told investors. 

A merger between Humana and Cigna could still be in the cards according to one analyst, Bloomberg reported April 22.