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January 21, 2003 at 07:00 PM
NU Online News Service, Jan. 21, 10:24 a.m. – WellPoint Health Networks Inc., Thousand Oaks, Calif., says it will increase the value of its offer for CareFirst Inc., Owings Mills, Md., to $1.37 billion, from $1.3 billion, and make other changes to address regulators’ concerns.
CareFirst is a nonprofit company that holds the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licenses for Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Officials in those jurisdictions say nonprofit companies are held in trust for the benefit of the people. In November 2001, WellPoint offered to compensate the people for acquiring CareFirst by contributing $1.3 billion to charitable foundations.
Since then, consultants have told Maryland insurance regulators that the price is too low and that WellPoint is offering top CareFirst executives compensation packages that are too rich.
