Health Payer Intelligence February 10, 2020
Major payers like Cigna are overlapping finalizing of previous mergers and acquisitions deals with new partnership announcements that aim to strengthen payer identity.
Payers are pairing the news of finalized 2019 mergers and acquisitions with new partnership announcements, like Cigna which announced three new partnerships in its recent fourth quarter 2019 earnings call.
Cigna is using this year to finalize its Express Scripts acquisition, but the company already has plans in place to pick up three strategic partnerships.
“At a philosophical level, we view that the notion of partnering and beyond partnering, striving to be the undisputed partner choice is a competitive advantage and something we want to build on,” said David Cordani, president and chief executive officer at Cigna,...