Wellpoint To Buy Amerigroup For $4.5 Billion In Medicaid Play

Medicaid

(Reuters) - Health insurer WellPoint Inc will buy rival Amerigroup Corp for $4.46 billion in a major bet on the expansion of the U.S. government's Medicaid health plans for the poor.

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