Health Industry’s Deal Engines Hums Despite Pandemic
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Some of the biggest companies in health care in the U.S. are pressing ahead with significant deals at the start of the new year, even as the coronavirus pandemic hangs over the industry’s immediate future.
Insurer
UnitedHealth Group Inc. unveiled one of its biggest-ever acquisitions on Wednesday, saying it planned to take over with the $8 billion acquisition of health-technology company
Change Healthcare Inc. for $8 billion. Also Wednesday,
AmerisourceBergen Corp. said it had agreed to buy
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.’s Alliance Healthcare pharmaceutical wholesale businesses for about $6.5 billion in cash and stock.