Coventry Health to Buy First Health
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Coventry Health Care Inc.  on Thursday said it agreed to buy rival health plan First Health Group Corp.  for about &#36;1.8 billion in stock and cash as it looks to expand its geographic reach and keep pace with rivals.
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In another sign insurers are betting that high-deductible insurance policies are the future of health care, UnitedHealth Group said Monday that it had agreed to purchase Definity Health for $300 million.
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Soft drink giant Coca-Cola spends makes its largest ever acquisition as it buys a health drink firm for $4.1bn.
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The nation&#39;s biggest health insurer said Monday that it would pay $300 million in cash to buy Definity Health Corp., the leading provider of consumer-driven health plans, whose base of operations is in Amherst.
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UnitedHealth Group Inc. UNH.N on  Monday said it would buy Definity Health Corp. for $300  million, as the No. 1 U.S. health insurer seeks to offer more  health savings accounts, which give consumers incentives to  rein in health costs.
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UK aerospace to medical goods group Smiths buys one of the world's leading medical products manufacturers, Medex, for $925m.
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HIGH-STREET pharmacists may soon be offering a wider range of services after agreement over a new contract with the Department of Health.
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Premier Foods, the owner of brands such as Branston sauces and Ambrosia, agrees to buy rival RHM for Â£1.2bn.
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Business News, MELBOURNE, Financial group HHG has agreed to sell its life insurance business, including Pearl, National Provident Life and London Life, for 1.025 billion pounds to Life Company Investor Group, and plans to return 875 million pounds of the
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Insurer Coventry Health Care Inc  said on Friday that third-quarter profit increased as premiums rose.
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Coventry Health Care Inc. on Thursday said it agreed to buy rival health plan First Health Group Corp. for $1.8 billion in stock and cash as it looks to expand its geographic reach and keep pace with rivals.
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UK rail and bus operator FirstGroup is buying US yellow school bus and Greyhound coach operator Laidlaw.
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Charterhouse has beaten off competition from another private equity player to buy Saga, the company that provides services to the over-50s, for Â£1.
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Gilead Sciences, which makes drugs to treat H.I.V., announced plans to buy a rival, Myogen, for about $2.5 billion in cash.
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Acute care hospital operator Select Medical Corp. said Monday it will be acquired by a new company formed by a private equity firm for $18 per share in cash or about $2.
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UnitedHealth Group, the largest US health insurance company, has said that it will spend $300 million in cash to buy Definity Health, a smaller health technology company specializing in plans that allow consumers leeway in directing their medical spending
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Holidays-to-insurance company Saga has been sold in a Â£1.35bn ($2.43bn) management buyout deal backed by private equity firm Charterhouse.