University at Albany (N.Y.) will no longer have a student health insurance program or a mandate requiring full-time students to have health insurance, the Times Union reported.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna saw its net income drop 13.9 percent year over year in the second quarter to $503 million.
The following healthcare mergers, acquisitions and general partnerships took place or were announced in the past week.
Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital — a branch of Partners HealthCare in Boston — looks to complete its acquisition of Dover, N.H.-based Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, the Boston Business Journal reported.
Here are the 17 largest hospital chains in the United States including both for-profit and not-for-profit hospital chains.
Waterbury, Conn.-based Saint Mary's Health System will officially join Hartford, Conn.-based Trinity Health – New England, according to WTNH News.
El Segundo, Calif.-based Radiology Partners is set to acquire Columbus Radiology, according to RP officials.
Medstreaming, a technology provider, has acquired Physician Billing Partners.
Baptist Health South Florida, based in Coral Gables, and nonprofit Nicklaus Children's Hospital, part of Miami Children's Health System, are partnering to improve healthcare through coordination and cooperation, the organizations announced Thursday.
Next year UnitedHealthcare and Aetna hope to join the country's largest state Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, in San Diego and Sacramento Counties, California Healthline reported.