Employee Benefit News November 30, 2023
By John Tozzi, Michelle F. Davis and Gillian Tan

Cigna Group’s potential tie-up with Humana 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 smaller Medicare Advantage business, a move that made little sense on its own before news broke of the Cigna-Humana talks.

That business has drawn interest from potential buyers including Health Care Service, according to people familiar with the matter who asked to not be identified because it isn’t public.

Representatives for HCSC and Cigna declined to comment.

A sale of Cigna’s Medicare Advantage business would remove one obstacle to a tie-up between Cigna and Humana, a combination sure to...

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