In a deal that would create the nation’s largest for-profit health insurer, Thousand Oaks-based WellPoint Health Networks Inc. agreed Monday to be acquired by Anthem Inc. of Indianapolis for $14.3 ...

If its recent flurry of acquisitions survives regulatory scrutiny and emerges intact, WellPoint Health Networks Inc. will have the nation’s third-largest enrollment among publicly traded managed-care ...

CHICAGO – Health insurer WellPoint Inc. (WLP) on Tuesday said it has agreed to buy WellChoice Inc. (WC) for nearly $6.5 billion in cash and stock, in a deal that would give WellPoint a stronger ...

WellPoint (WLP), the largest health benefits company in the U.S., grew even larger last week with the completion of its purchase of WellChoice. The closing of the $6.5-billion deal, which was ...

WellPoint Health Networks Inc. went public in 1993 and was the nation’s first conversion of a nonprofit Blue Cross to a for-profit structure. To fuel its own growth and tremendous success to date the ...

The CEO of WellPoint Inc., the nation's largest health insurer, is being called before Congress this week to defend planned rate hikes of as much as 39 percent for some customers even as the company ...

Regulators in states affected by Anthem Inc.'s proposed $16.5 billion acquisition of WellPoint Health Networks Inc. say they are closely monitoring California, where Insurance Commissioner John ...

Shares of WellPoint Inc. fell 4.7 percent this morning after the Indianapolis health insurer announced strong fourth-quarter financial performance but also said it failed to attract as many new ...

Upon completion of the acquisition, WellPoint will become one of the largest providers and administrators of dental benefits in the country with significant growth opportunities nationwide. Both ...

Acquisition Advances the Companies’ Capabilities to More Effectively and Efficiently Serve the Growing Medicaid Population, Including the Expanding Dual Eligible, Seniors and Persons with Disabilities ...

Giant health insurer WellPoint is putting up its dukes up in defense of higher premiums at its California subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross. For those new to the fight, last week Health and Human Services ...

WellPoint Inc said on Wednesday that it had initiated a dividend, the third major U.S. health insurer to recently start offering a substantial payout to its shareholders. WellPoint, which also backed ...