Transactions & Valuation Issues

Premier, a Charlotte, N.C.-based healthcare improvement company, will exit the complex specialty pharmacy business.

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth and Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Health are in talks to expand services at AdventHealth's hospital in Hendersonville, N.C.

Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System and La Crosse, Wis.-based Gundersen Health System are exploring a merger that would create a 13-hospital rural healthcare network, the organizations said May 7.

The Health Plan, a West Virginia-based health insurer, will integrate with West Virginia University Health System, a nine-hospital system in Morgantown, the organizations said May 7.

Two major hedge funds that built stakes in Centene Corp. are considering challenging its proposed $17.3 billion bid for WellCare Health Plans, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Here are seven lawsuits involving payers posted by Becker's Hospital Review in recent weeks.

Aetna will not have to pay Florida hospitals owned by Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare $150 million related to an arbitration case, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Aetna's parent company, CVS Health.

The American Hospital Association called on the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division to investigate Centene's $17.3 billion bid for WellCare Health Plans, the organization said in an emailed statement to Becker's Hospital Review.

Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine and Palos Health in Palos Heights, Ill., have called off merger discussions after signing a nonbinding letter of intent in January.

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health signed a letter of intent to merge with Ireland's largest private healthcare provider, Bon Secours Health System in Dublin.