Fierce Health Technology December 15, 2021
UnitedHealth Group has pushed back the deadline for its nearly $8 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Change said in the filing that UnitedHealth informed the company that it was pushing back the deal’s outside date to April 2022. Previous filings suggested that the acquisition could close as early as late February.
Within the merger agreement, both companies have the right to push back the outside date.
UnitedHealth and Change are awaiting the completion of an investigation into the merger by the Department of Justice, which has been probing the deal on antitrust grounds.
UnitedHealth executives said during its third quarter earnings call in October that it expects acquisition to...
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