Aetna Offering Discounts on Apple Watch for Health Monitoring September 28, 2016 By Zachary Tracer and Alex Webb Aetna Inc. will give some customers and employees discounts on Apple Inc.’s smartwatch, offering the potential that incentives from the...
How Clinton, Trump Differ on Health Reform September 23, 2016 By Zachary Tracer and Sahil Kapur If Democrats keep the White House come November, millions of Americans could gain health-care coverage. If Republicans take it back,...
New York Regulator Has ‘Significant Concerns’ About Anthem-Cigna Merger August 4, 2016 By Zachary Tracer New York’s insurance regulator has “significant concerns” about Anthem Inc.’s proposed $48 billion acquisition of rival health insurer Cigna Corp....
Court Battles Begin as U.S., States Sue to Halt Anthem, Aetna Mergers July 21, 2016 By Andrew Harris, Bloomberg and Zachary Tracer U.S. antitrust enforcers roundly rejected a pair of proposed deals that would consolidate the nation’s five biggest health insurers into...
Insurer Competition Vital for Healthcare Consumers: U.S. Health Official July 18, 2016 By Zachary Tracer The Obama administration’s top health official highlighted the importance of competition to insurance markets, as the Justice Department is poised...
New York Gives Aetna-Humana Merger Green Light with Conditions July 12, 2016 By Zachary Tracer and Greg Farrell New York’s insurance regulator has conditionally approved Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion takeover of Humana Inc., one of the last state...
Health Insurer Merger Interest Could Turn to Smaller Plans July 5, 2016 By David McLaughlin and Zachary Tracer A breakup of Anthem Inc.’s $48 billion bid for Cigna Corp., under scrutiny by U.S. antitrust regulators, could spark new...
Anthem Says It’s Not Walking Away from Cigna Merger June 29, 2016 By Zachary Tracer and Ari Altstedter Anthem Inc. said it’s not in discussions with Cigna Corp. to end their $48 billion tie-up, as speculation about the...
Obama Administration Calls for Stricter Building Codes May 11, 2016 By Angela Greiling Keane and Zachary Tracer President Barack Obama is asking the private sector to tighten building standards to reduce losses from natural disasters after studies...
Cigna Cautions That Anthem Merger May Not Happen in 2016 May 9, 2016 By Zachary Tracer Cigna Corp.’s acquisition by health insurance rival Anthem Inc. may not be approved this year, Cigna said Friday in a...