‘We Don’t Need to Do M&A,’ Cigna Chief Financial Officer Says

  • Jun 14, 2024

    Months after rumors of a brewing deal with Humana Inc. generated a spate of headlines, The Cigna Group’s chief financial officer is signaling clearly that the company isn’t eager to jump into the mergers and acquisitions game until the conditions are just right.

    “We continue to view inorganic activity through the lens of, it needs to be strategically attractive for the company,” CFO Brian Evanko said during a question-and-answer session with analyst Nathan Rich during the Goldman Sachs Global Healthcare Conference on June 11.

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    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.

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