Report: Amedisys-UnitedHealth Group Closes In On Sizable Divestment Package

A new report claims that home health giant Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) and UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) are closing in on a sizable divestment package to help circumvent antitrust concerns from regulators.

UnitedHealth Group and its Optum arm announced a $3.3 billion deal to acquire Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Amedisys last year, offline the in-home care company away from previous suitor Option Care Health (Nasdaq: OPCH). Since the deal was announced, UnitedHealth Group has faced mounting pressure from individual lawmakers and federal regulators alike.

specifically, the new report comes from The Capitol Forum, a news organization that covers antitrust, merger control,

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Besides nurse’s husband sues health care company, alleging it ignored employees’ safety concerns

The husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday, alleging her employer repeatedly ignored workers’ safety concerns about treating dangerous patients.

Ronald Grayson sued Elara Caring, its affiliated companies and others over the killing of his wife, Joyce Grayson, a 63-year-old mother of six who was found dead in the basement of a halfway house in Willimantic on Oct. 28. She was strangled and suffered multiple blunt force injuries, authorities said. Elara Caring, based in Dallas, Texas, denies the allegations.

“For years prior to October

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Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis sentenced to 40 months in prison for defrauding NBA’s healthcare plan

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Former NBA big man Glen “Big Baby” Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison on Thursday after it was determined that he defrauded the NBA’s healthcare plan. Davis, 38, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release in addition to the 40-month prison term.

In November 2023, Davis was found guilty of health care fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to make false statements, and conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud. As a result of those charges, the former NBA power forward was facing up to 20 years in prison.

Davis, along with several other former

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