As HCSC, Elevance Vie for Cigna’s Medicare Book, Analysts Puzzle Over Path Forward

December 22

While deal talks between The Cigna Group and Humana Inc. have reportedly fizzled, Cigna’s desire to sell its Medicare Advantage business is apparently still alive and well. Health Care Service Corp. and Elevance Health, Inc., are the two contenders for Cigna’s MA segment, which could fetch more than $3 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources.

Industry observers say they aren’t surprised that Cigna is still trying to offload its MA book of business, even if doing so is no longer necessary to fend off antitrust scrutiny associated with a Cigna-Humana megamerger. What’s less clear, they say, is what Cigna’s growth strategy would then look like.

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Leslie Small

Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.