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UnitedHealth to buy LHC Group for $5.4 billion

Health Services 03/29/2022

UnitedHealth Group is spending about $5.4 billion to delve deeper into home health care with the acquisition of LHC Group. The health care giant said...

CVS Health hikes dividend, eyes push into primary care

Health Services 12/09/2021

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. is hiking its dividend and offering a better-than-expected 2022 revenue forecast as the health care giant prepares to dive...

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP is being required to offer coverage through MassHealth, the Massachusetts state-run health exchange, as the company covers more than 5,000 Massachusetts workers through small-employer health plans. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL NAGLE

Star Tribune: UnitedHealthcare pushed into Mass. health exchange

Health Services 07/23/2018

PROVIDENCE – UnitedHealth Group Inc. has been required to sell health care coverage in 2019 in the Massachusetts state-run health exchange, MassHealth, and the...

Amazon already reshaping health care

Advice 03/30/2018

Without having done much yet, Amazon.com Inc. is already transforming U.S. health care – and not necessarily for the better. The mere threat of the...

AETNA INC. ANNOUNCED that it will will pass on the discounts it negotiates on prescription drugs to about 3 million of its members. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL NAGLE

Aetna will pass along discounts as drug price scrutiny increases

Health Services 03/27/2018

NEW YORK - Aetna Inc. will pass on the discounts it negotiates on prescription drugs to about 3 million of its members, the latest...

Cigna to draw antitrust scrutiny amid health care deal wave

Government 03/09/2018

NEW YORK – Cigna Corp.’s proposed deal for Express Scripts Holding Co. faces a drawn-out merger review as the Trump administration’s antitrust enforcers weigh the competitive...

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP will buy DaVita Inc.’s physician network business for $4.9 billion. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL NAGLE

UnitedHealth buys DaVita’s physician practices for $4.9B

Health Services 12/06/2017

NEW YORK - UnitedHealth Group Inc. will buy DaVita Inc.’s physician network business for $4.9 billion, adding hundreds of medical clinics to the biggest...

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL reported that CVS Health Corp. is in talks to buy Aetna Inc. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/DAVID PAUL MORRIS

Opinion: A CVS-Aetna deal makes some sense but could be a...

Health Services 10/27/2017

NEW YORK - Health care consolidation may get a whole new look. CVS Health Corp. is reportedly considering a blockbuster buyout of health insurer Aetna...

THE DOW JONES Industrial Average briefly rose above 23,000 Tuesday, a record high. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL NAGLE

Another thousand points for the Dow as earnings fuel 23,000 run

Economic Activity 10/17/2017

NEW YORK - The Dow Jones Industrial Average passed another milestone, topping 23,000 for the first time, as strong earnings from UnitedHealth Group Inc....