CEO SUMMARY: For the second time in nine months, a health insurer company has spent around $9 billion to grow by acquisition. This time, it is UnitedHealth Group purchasing PacifiCare Health Systems. These types of deals impact local labs and pathology groups as existing contracts expire. However, the most interesting wild card is consumer-driven healthcare […]
Payer Consolidation: United Buys Pacificare
Consolidation may be a result of larger trends soon to pressure health insurance companies
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XII No. 10 - July 11, 2005 Issue
- Tags: cap, care contracts, dark report, Fee-for-service, hospital lab outreach programs, impac, lab outreach, lab test, lab testing, lab testing services, laboratories, laboratory industry, laboratory service, laboratory services, Medicare, pathologists, Pathology group, pathology groups, the dark report, the laboratory
