Close the acquisition of WellCare
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 1 Nov 2019
- Due
- 30 Jun 2020
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The proposed acquisition of WellCare by Centene was announced in March 2019 and is expected to close by the first half of 2020.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company's filings confirm the acquisition of WellCare was completed, as evidenced by references to divestitures occurring immediately prior to the closing and the integration of operations during the first half of 2020.
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A Centene Corporation 10-Q filed 2020-07-28
“the Company immediately began integrating WellCare into its ongoing operations.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Centene Corporation 10-Q filed 2020-07-28
“Immediately prior to the closing of the WellCare Acquisition, Anthem, Inc. acquired WellCare’s Missouri Medicaid health plan” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -0.9% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (27 Jul 2020 to 30 Jul 2020). What this measures
Checked 8 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- WellCare acquisition
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act; receipt of required state regulatory approvals; customary closing conditions
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Government
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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