On Thursday, Shares of Anthem Inc (NYSE:ANTM), lost -6.88% to $127.86.
For the second successive year, Anthem, Inc. declared that it received a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
The 2016 CEI rated 1,027 businesses in the report, which evaluates LGBT-related policies and practices counting non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBT community. Anthem’s efforts in satisfying all of the CEI’s criteria results in a 100 percent ranking and the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality.
“Anthem is proud to once again earn a perfect score of 100 percent on the Corporate Equality Index,” said Tracy Edmonds, chief diversity officer at Anthem, Inc. “Anthem’s commitment to be a valued health care partner to all Americans means we must recognize and understand the unique needs and expectations of the varied communities we serve. Our LGBT customers and associates are an integral part of those communities and this recognition underscores our demonstrated commitment to inclusion of the LGBT community.”
Anthem, Inc., through its auxiliaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Commercial and Specialty Business, Government Business, and Other. The company offers a spectrum of network-based managed care health benefit plans to large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets.
Shares of Medtronic PLC (NYSE:MDT), declined -2.33% to $75.75, during its last trading session.
Medtronic plc, declared that its Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) and Hybrid Closed Loop system have both earned the 2015 `Best of What`s New` award in the health category by Popular Science, the world`s largest science and technology magazine.
Selected after careful evaluation of thousands of submissions, the Micra TPS and Hybrid Closed Loop system, which comprises an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor sensor, are among the 100 honorees that represent a noteworthy leap forward in their respective categories. All winners will be featured in the magazine`s December issue, available now.
At less than one-tenth the size of traditional pacemakers, the Micra TPS is the world`s smallest pacemaker yet provides the most advanced pacing technology available for patients. It is cosmetically invisible and small enough to be delivered with minimally invasive techniques through a catheter, and implanted directly into the heart. Comparable in size to a large vitamin, the Micra TPS does not require the use of wires, known as “leads,” to deliver pacing therapy; rather, its flexible tines attach to the interior of the right ventricle. In the United States, the Micra TPS is an investigational device and not yet approved for commercial use. The device was awarded CE Mark (Conformité Européenne) in April 2015, with approval for 1.5T and 3T full body MRI scanning providing patients with access to the most advanced imaging diagnostic procedures.
Medtronic plc manufactures and sells device-based medical therapies worldwide. The company’s Cardiac and Vascular Group segment offers pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, implantable cardiac resynchronization therapy devices, AF products, diagnostics and monitoring devices, and remote monitoring and patient-centered software; and heart valves, percutaneous coronary intervention stent products, surgical valve replacement and repair products, endovascular stent grafts, and peripheral vascular intervention products.
Finally, Shares of Southern Co (NYSE:SO), ended its last trade with 1.64% gain, and closed at $45.18.
Shareholders of AGL Resources, voted to approve the projected merger with Southern Company (SO), declared on August 24, 2015. Additionally, AGL Resources shareholders approved the projected executive compensation that may be paid or may become payable to the Company’s named executive officers in connection with or following the consummation of the merger.
The merger remains subject to federal and state regulatory approvals, and the transaction is predictable to close in the second half of 2016.
The Southern Company, together with its auxiliaries, operates as a public electric utility company. It is involved in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resources in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi.