Transactions & Valuation Issues

Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health and Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, are one step closer to merging.

Panola Medical Center, a 112-bed hospital in Batesville, Miss., has had three different owners since 2017.

Aetna will close its mail-order prescription delivery location in Kansas City, Mo., resulting in 138 layoffs, according to the Kansas City Business Journal. This is the second site reported that Aetna will close.

Christus Health hospitals in Texas and Louisiana are no longer in Cigna's provider network, the Irving, Texas-based health system said on its website.

Detroit-based Wayne State University's efforts to expand its relationship with Henry Ford Health System remained stalled while questions arose about payments the university made to people who worked on the deal, according to documents cited by The Detroit News.

Aetna will close its mail-order prescription delivery location in Plantation, Fla., resulting in 106 layoffs, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Ardent Health Services completed the sale of its interest in Bay Medical Sacred Heart in Panama City, Fla., to Ascension on March 14.

A chancery court judge in Delaware is set to decide whether Anthem or Cigna is owed money in a breakup battle that ensued in the two years after their failed merger, according to the CT Mirror.

A judge tasked with signing off on a government settlement allowing CVS Health to acquire Aetna ordered a hearing on the matter, according to Reuters.

Last month, Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health and Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System called of their merger, which would have resulted in a 68-hospital system. That is one of several hospital mergers that, at some point in their lifetime,…