Is Humana Preparing to Sell Itself again?

Are execs doing everything they can to make the company profitable in order to entice another buyer to buy at least part of the corporation, of not all?

Best (fastest) way to make a corporation appear profitable is to reduce highest paying employees (on the lower rung up to middle management maybe).

Might be interesting to see if in a year, Humana will be bought up or maybe just CenterWell or maybe they keep CenterWell, sell Humana Medidcare Advantage portion, and then rename CenterWell Humana. I personally will be watching with a bucket of popcorn.

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@bv True that executive compensation is growing while layoffs and early retirement reduce workforce costs. To an acquirer that may make the company even more attractive. The financial calculus will be that a buyout will dramatically increase profitability because they will reduce the executive overhead. The executives will win because they have stock incentives. They'll just go on to destroy the next company to "maximize shareholder value".

They are obviously prioritizing cash (Gentiva Hospice divestment). They are also working on certain metrics within CenterWell to make a potential sale more attractive.

Did they ever stop?

@bv Between AI and Outsourcing for cheaper labor that very well may ne their plan (to remove have the workforce, as you mentioned). Would not surprise me.

@OP in order to save money, they would have to lay off over half of all the employees just to make up for all of the high paying executive jobs that they have been bringing in over the past few years.

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