Healthcare Pizza January 28, 2020
Andy Mychkovsky

Why the Centene and WellCare Merger is the Biggest Deal in 2020

I feel like the healthcare world just skipped over the $17.3 billion mega-merger between Centene and Wellcare, which just received final regulatory approval last Wednesday. With their powers combined, this new company will create the Thanos of government-focused health plans, hopefully without any of the deranged plans to take over the world. I do get it, 181 million lives are covered by employer-sponsored insurance, between full-risk and self-insured plans. These employer populations have the most disposable income and their HR departments are willing to provide supplemental benefits. However, in my opinion, the future growth of health insurance will be governmental programs like Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicaid managed care,...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Mergers & Acquisitions / JV, Payer, Trends
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