Anthem

The decision is a likely final blow to complete the $48 billion merger, which a lower-court judge had said should be stopped because it risked undermining competition in health insurance markets.

The platform aims to help employers and employees manage their healthcare spend.

Health insurer Anthem will drop the pharmacy benefit manager after accusing it of overcharging by billions of dollars a year.

The platform aims to help employers and employees manage their healthcare spend.

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Attendees at the Monday meeting will include chief executives of some of the biggest U.S. health insurers, like UnitedHealth Group Inc., Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp., Independence Blue Cross and BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina.

After 18 months of courtship and court cases, two massive deals that would have reshaped the U.S. health insurance industry have both been declared dead, blocked by judges who said they’d do unacceptable harm to competition in the industry.

Witnesses say combination will squeeze reimbursement rates as the insurers counter that merger will lower healthcare costs.

Anthem Inc.’s proposed merger with Cigna Corp. would reduce health-care competition and raise costs for consumers, U.S. antitrust lawyers will argue Monday when the government goes to court to block the transaction.

Letters and e-mails between the two companies may become evidence in the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to halt the $48 billion.

Chief Executive Officer David Cordani faces a tough task: persuading investors and lawyers that the health insurer is committed to a troubled $48 billion takeover, while also talking up its prospects as an independent company.

The judge overseeing two U.S. cases challenging mergers among four of the biggest health insurers gave up one, improving the odds for rulings on both tie-ups by the end of the year and reducing the chance they fall apart beforehand.

The takeover is in “danger of collapsing” unless there’s a quick trial to resolve a U.S. lawsuit seeking to block the deal.

The Empire State's insurance regulator has “significant concerns’’ about proposed $48 billion acquisition will hold a hearing to address them before deciding whether to approve the deal.

Anthem Inc. is pushing for a speedy decision on the government’s bid to block the health insurer’s planned $48 billion merger with rival Cigna Corp.

Hours after the U.S. government sued to block two major health insurance mergers, one deal appears headed for the courthouse while the other could be headed to the graveyard.

U.S. antitrust enforcers roundly rejected a pair of proposed deals that would consolidate the nation’s five biggest health insurers into three.

With the market condensing to a few big carriers, such as Anthem, adviser Vinnie Daboul predicts the health insurance system is entering a new phase.

The insurance commissioner in the country’s most populous state calls on the government to block Anthem Inc.’s $48 billion takeover of rival health insurer Cigna Corp., saying the deal would limit competition in the state’s health-insurance market.

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