Capital

The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.

Bethesda, Md.-based Aledade announced Tuesday it applied to CMS to launch accountable care organizations next year in seven states, including Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

The five largest health insurers in the nation have released their financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2015.

Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans, a private Medicare and Medicaid managed care company, has reported adjusted net income of $59.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2015, compared with an adjusted net loss of $3.1 million for the…

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. has broken ground on an expansion for the Delray Medical Center in Delray Beach, Fla., that is estimated to cost nearly $80 million, according to a report from The Real Deal.

The American Hospital Association submitted a letter to the Department of Justice last week requesting vigorous review of the proposed Anthem-Cigna and Humana-Aetna deals.

St. Louis-based Amerinet, a national healthcare solutions organization, has announced a new agreement for adult incontinence products with Medline Industries.

Here are nine capital projects at hospitals and health systems that were recently announced, started, changed or completed, beginning with the most recent.

Oscar Health Insurance, a young New York-based start-up valued at $1.5 billion, is lauded as a disrupter among its more traditional contemporaries. With its quirky branding and emphasis on simplicity, it has been coined the "hipster" health insurance company poised…

Aetna's roots go back to the 1850s, when Aetna Insurance Company organized an annuity fund to sell life insurance. Since then, Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna has become one of the nation's largest insurance companies, providing insurance to roughly 46 million people.