AET News and Press, Aetna Inc. From 03/27/18

Allina Health and Aetna (NYSE:  AET ) have named Tom Lindquist as CEO of Allina Health and Aetna Insurance Company (Allina Health | Aetna), the jointly owned health care company that was announced by the two organizations in January 2017 . This press release features multimedia. Vi...

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Beginning in 2019, Aetna (NYSE: AET ) will automatically apply pharmacy rebates at the time of sale for its Commercial fully insured plan members. While the majority of rebates have always been passed on to plan sponsors and their employees through lower premiums, Aetna believes that greate...

Market swoons are bad news for dealmakers. Stock market plunges can erode the value of bids involving acquirers' stock, make bankers reluctant to lend, and change the outlook violently. Recent market tumult, with the S&P 500 Index down 6 percent last week, doesn't qualify as an extinction ...

WASHINGTON , March 26, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in rankings and civic journalism, in collaboration with the Aetna Foundation , the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Aetna , today announced the inaugural Health...

This time, it's Cigna ( CI ) and Express Scripts ( ESRX ) and the same defensive attitude is behind it as with the Aetna ( AET ) and CVS ( CVS ) deal. The healthcare sector is now positioning for dealing with potential reform with top-down consolidation strategies that are a knee-jerk defensiv...

David Fish maintains a list of dividend growth stocks with at least five consecutive years of paying higher dividends. Colloquially called the CCC list , it contains more than 800 dividend growth stocks trading on U.S. exchanges. The CCC list and the accompanying spreadsheet is a wonderful so...

Introduction Anyone long CVS Health ( CVS ) shares in the last 36 months is unlikely to be thrilled. While the broader stock market has continued to rise to new heights, CVS has continued to disappoint investors. The stock is now trading at close to its 3-year low due to a number of issues...

Background This article is the fifth in a series on Mega-Cap Health Insurance [HI] companies. I suggest reading the previous articles: Health Insurance – an Industry in Transition ; Medicare for All or Private Medicare Advantage ?; Medicaid for All or Business as Usual ? and Dem...

CVS Heath ( CVS -0.8% ) and Aetna ( AET +0.2% ) report that their respective shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposed merger. In special meetings, 98% of the CVS shares voted were in favor of the tie-up while 97% of the Aetna shares voted  backed the deal. ...