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...One of the finest fruits of the latter is the victory of medical science over a lengthening list of diseases. Lex explored this theme — and R&D as a broader topic — in this week’s column....
...Evernorth, a subsidiary of health insurance company Cigna, has invested an undisclosed amount and will be a minority owner in VillageMD....
...In the summer of 2018, Lisa Robillard left her doctor’s office and walked down the long corridor of a medical complex in suburban Virginia....
...Cigna and Teneo believed that when the picture was shared it would “hurt his credibility as a healthcare CEO”, as Laster wrote....
...A hint of what will come is in the insurers’ medical-loss ratios, which measures how much of the premium an insurer collects gets paid out to medical providers....
...The country’s biggest listed health insurers — UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Anthem and Humana — have collectively added about $160.5bn to their market values since the pandemic began in earnest in late March...
...&D before selling anything....
...CVS Health swung to a net loss in its fourth quarter owing to $2.2bn impairment on its long-term healthcare operations and further ruffled feathers with a disappointing outlook for the group, setting shares...
...The US Department of Justice has approved CVS Health’s $69bn takeover of Aetna, clearing the way for the creation of a huge US healthcare group....
...“We want to assess their fit with our culture,” says Daniel Robinson, medical economics manager at Cigna, the health insurer....
...“Medical technology has had a very good start to the year,” said Ms Wuensch. “You have had a number of companies announce stronger than expected fourth quarters....
...I’d rather focus on the competition of tomorrow than combine with the competition of today.”...
...The problem shows how US healthcare is reliant on small groups of for-profit companies for essential supplies and lacks a regulator to control prices and marketing practices....
...benefits manager Express Scripts by Cigna, another healthcare insurer....
...The company, which also operates a medical services arm known as Optum, recorded net income of $2.28bn, or $2.32 per share, up 30 per cent from the same three months in 2016....
...Compared with these programmes, the healthcare exchange business is a footnote. Can the prosperity continue? Put aside the merger issue....
...Aetna has also improved its staff medical plan, which dramatically reduced the amount that low-paid employees had to contribute to their healthcare....
...Consolidation among health insurers has coincided with a deals boom among drugmakers and medical technology companies, with all the big groups in US healthcare facing pressure to become more efficient as...
...In Alabama, for instance, the local BCBS group has a market share of 84 per cent, according to the American Medical Association....
...Healthcare has been one of the busiest sectors for dealmaking with hundreds of billions of dollars in M&A among drugmakers, medical technology companies, pharmacy benefit managers and healthcare providers...
...A pillar of US President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act faces a crucial test in the coming months when new healthcare exchanges that are supposed to insure 25m Americans start operating....
...As part of the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law, insurers will be required to take on customers with pre-existing medical conditions and use most of their revenue to pay for medical care....
...Aetna, WellPoint and Cigna, three of the US’s largest health operators, were among the biggest decliners on the main US market....
...Leading healthcare stocks pared most of their losses after the Supreme Court upheld Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law as constitutional....
...Aetna, partnering with Duke University School of Medicine, found that one hour of yoga a week decreased stress levels in employees by a third, reducing healthcare costs by an average of $2,000 a year....
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