Omnicare Inc. will need more than an elegant theory if it hopes to gain an antitrust ruling against UnitedHealth Group, an appellate court in Chicago recently ruled.
Wound care firm KCI agrees to be bought for $6.3 billion
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John O'Connor
Aug 02, 2011
One of the world’s largest wound care companies is about to gain a new owner. At press time, Kinetic Concepts Inc. agreed to be acquired by a consortium put together by Apax Partners, a private equity...
Omnicare: New rules are not likely to harm the business
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John O'Connor
Nov 01, 2011
The nation’s largest institutional pharmacy vendor does not expect proposed drug handling rules to adversely affect its business, even though they likely will increase drug-delivery costs.
Omnicare extends PharMerica buy offer
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John O'Connor
Jan 03, 2012
Pharmacy giant Omnicare announced that it was extending to Jan. 20 its offer to purchase all outstanding shares of rival PharMerica for $15 per share. The original offer had been scheduled to expire in...
Relias buys Care2Learn to strengthen e-learning role
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John O'Connor
Jun 01, 2013
Two years ago, Silverchair Learning Systems, Upstairs Solutions and Care2Learn operated as three separate e-learning firms. But they are all now part of the same company, thanks to another acquisition...