$MDHI . $CVH Buying suppliers. On August 19, 2012
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$MDHI . $CVH Buying suppliers. On August 19, 2012, we, Aetna Inc. (“Aetna”) and Jaguar Merger Subsidiary, Inc. (“Merger Sub”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, pursuant to which, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, Merger Sub will be merged with and into us, with the Company surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aetna (the “Merger”). A copy of the Agreement and Plan of Merger was filed as Exhibit 2.1 to our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 20, 2012. We subsequently entered into Amendment No. 1 and Amendment No. 2 to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, which were filed as Exhibit 2.1 to our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on October 23, 2012 and November 13, 2012, respectively. As used herein, the “Merger Agreement” means the Agreement and Plan of Merger, by and among Coventry, Aetna and Merger Sub, as amended. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, our shareholders will receive $27.30 in cash, without interest, and 0.3885 of an Aetna common share for each share of our common stock. The total transaction was estimated at $7.3 billion, including the assumption of our debt, based on the closing price of Aetna common shares on August 17, 2012.