Anthem is relaunching its Wellpoint brand to unify its Medicare, Medicaid and commercial health plans in select markets. The company said it plans to make this transition over the next few years and ...

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 ...

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 ...

WellPoint Inc., the second-largest U.S.-based insurer, announced that it will change its name to Anthem Inc., the brand that it now uses for the majority of its healthcare insurance products. As the ...

WellPoint Inc.’s stock price has soared this year to heights the company has never seen. But the 30-percent run-up has just managed to bring the giant health insurer back into the pack of its peers.

The buying spree is back on at WellPoint Inc. The Indianapolis-based health insurer has put together a string of deals in the past 13 months that is reminiscent of the acquisition binge that ran from ...

Editor's Note: Charles Kennedy of WellPoint, Inc. (photo and bio above), is a participant in today's National Press Club briefing on meaningful use of health IT, cosponsored by Health Affairs and the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- WellPoint Inc. has fired General Counsel John Cannon, who led the nation's second-largest health insurer for a few months after former CEO Angela Braly stepped down in 2012. The ...

Wellpoint (WLP), one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, added 1.3 million more subscribers across its government and commercial businesses thanks in large part to the Affordable 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 ...