Elevance Again Beats Utilization Blues, Launches Primary Care PE Deal

  • Apr 19, 2024

    Elevance Health, Inc. posted solid results in the first quarter of 2024 and announced an agreement to build a new primary care-focused provider unit with financing from private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier and Rice LLC (CD&R). Wall Street analysts were positive about the results, praising the firm’s relatively low care utilization — an area where other health insurers have struggled in recent quarters. 

    Elevance has been busy with dealmaking in recent months. The CD&R deal, announced April 15, will see the private equity firm and Elevance combine what a CD&R press release termed “certain care delivery and enablement assets of Elevance Health’s Carelon Health and CD&R portfolio companies, apree health and Millennium Physician Group” into a “payer-agnostic” primary care provider focused on value-based contracting, including for patients covered by commercial insurance. It will serve 1 million patients from its inception. 

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  • Peter Johnson

    Peter has worked as a journalist since 2011 and has covered health care since 2020. At AIS Health, Peter covers trends in finance, business and policy that affect the health insurance and pharma sectors. For Health Plan Weekly, he covers all aspects of the U.S. health insurance sector, including employer-sponsored insurance, Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces. In Radar on Drug Benefits, Peter covers the operations of (and conflicts between) pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers, with a particular focus on pricing dynamics and market access. Before joining AIS Health, Peter covered transportation, public safety and local government for various outlets in Seattle, his hometown and current place of residence. He graduated with a B.A. from Colby College.

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