{"id":4351,"date":"2015-08-10T06:03:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T01:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gator4211.hostgator.com\/~cinnww\/insurance-advocate.com\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2015-10-26T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:39:10","slug":"aetna-looks-to-acquire-humana-for-37b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/2015\/08\/10\/aetna-looks-to-acquire-humana-for-37b\/","title":{"rendered":"Aetna Looks to Acquire Humana for $37B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aetna plans to acquire Humana for $37 billion in a deal that would see Humana stockholders receive $125 in cash and 0.8375 Aetna common shares for each Humana share.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After the deal, Aetna\u2019s shareholders would own approximately 74% of the combined company and Humana\u2019s shareholders would own approximately 26%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The combined company would have projected 2015 operating revenue of around $115 billion, with approximately 56% from government sponsored programs including Medicare and Medicaid. It would also have over 33 million medical members, based on memberships as of March 31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe acquisition of Humana aligns two great companies and will significantly advance our strategy of more effectively serving members in a rapidly changing health care industry,\u201d says Mark T. Bertolini, Aetna chairman and CEO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Reuters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/08\/04\/aetna-results-ceo-idUSL1N10F16820150804\"><span class=\"s2\">story<\/span><\/a> quotes Bertolini as telling investors that the antitrust process with regulators has begun. \u201cThe process is underway,\u201d he says in the Reuters story. \u201cWe&#8217;ve engaged in conversations with insurance commissioners, with governors, with Washington.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aetna plans to acquire Humana for $37 billion in a deal that would see Humana stockholders receive $125 in cash and 0.8375 Aetna common shares for each Humana share. After the deal, Aetna\u2019s shareholders would own approximately 74% of the combined company and Humana\u2019s shareholders would own approximately 26%. The combined company would have projected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-health","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}