Cigna’s Humana Play Could Benefit From Sale of Medicare Business

 

• Health Care Service Corp. said to eye Cigna Medicare Advantage
• Potential Cigna-Humana tie-up likely to face antitrust concern

Cigna Group’s potential tie-up with Humana Inc. would almost certainly face the kind of tough antitrust scrutiny that has derailed other health insurance mega-mergers.

In recent months, Cigna has been taking steps to get around that hurdle by shopping its relatively small Medicare Advantage business, a move that made little sense on its own before news broke of the Cigna-Humana talks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-30/cigna-s-humana-play-could-benefit-from-sale-of-medicare-business