Filed
by Aetna Inc.
Pursuant to Rule 425 of the Securities Act of 1933
and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Subject
Company: Humana Inc.
(Commission File No.: 001-05975)
The following is an excerpted transcript of a video that was distributed to Aetna employees through an
internal website:
Aetna
National Accounts
TAPE
# Aetna_NationalAccts
Welcome
to the third quarter, 2015 National Accounts All-Employee Meeting. I really want to start with a question, how many of you here
in Hartford were in this room yesterday with Mark and Bruce Broussard, the CEO of Humana spoke, raise your hand. Just about everybody
in the room. I’ve been with Aetna for twenty years. I’ve never seen this place so full. It was standing room only.
And for those of you people out in TV land, you could feel the excitement, you could feel the pride, and here I am the next day
standing up in front of you, one of the most storied business units within Aetna, one that contributes substantially to all the
things that Mark and the board and Karen want to do, and I feel honored. I sense a historical purpose behind what we’re
doing. We are living in historic times. We’re moving out of the managed care era into the accountable care era. We work
for an historic company, we’ve been here over sixty year—a hundred and sixty years. And if you think about all the
options that our executive leadership team had to figure out during the Humana merger, given all the press and all the different
things that could have happened, it’s amazing how well they navigated through it. And then it occurred to me we’ve
been doing that for a hundred and sixty years. And I’m just really delighted to be here. And although there’s a lot
of uncertainty, I recall Ron Williams saying “the best way to deal with uncertainty is to create your own future.”
We are now in a position, it’s a hundred-billion dollar plus company after the merger, in order to create our own destiny.
We have preserved a great brand, we have preserved a tradition that’s represented in this building, and a great tradition
in National Accounts. So I, - for one, am thankful for those people that came before us, because we stand on the shoulders of
those people that came before us. And when we’re gone, the next generation will stand on our shoulders. And that’s
an awesome responsibility, and I’m blessed to be here and hope you feel the same way too. A quick overview of what we’re
going to talk about today: I’ll give a brief update, Darren Schulman is going to join me, our head of business development,
and we’ll have some Q&A sessions at the end. So, let’s talk about our strategy. As I mentioned, we’re on
the cusp of a sea change from the managed care era to the accountable care era. The cusp means we have one foot in the old world
and one foot in the new world. And I’m predicting that things are going to feel a little different and uncertain and unsure
for ‘16, ‘17, but I think our strategy will crystalize in ‘18. There are three primary elements that we’re
seeing in the market, and these are irrefutable. They’re undisputed. And our strategy leans right into them. The first one
is choice. People want more choice in their benefit plans, they want broad networks, they want narrow networks, they want CDHP
plans, they want other plans, they want voluntary products, they want dental products and they want to shop on their own, armed
with the right information and make choices. Another major theme in the market is value, and by value I mean the cost and quality
of medical care. I would argue that insurance isn’t broken, it’s the health system that’s broken So, choice,
value, and consumerism. And consumerism means that we want a shopping experience, we want to make our own trade-offs and our own
decisions. So, those are at the heart of our strategy, and I’ll link those to some of our initiatives in a little while.
Not every customer will embrace our strategy immediately. In fact, I think we have the winning strategy for 2018, and what keeps
me up at night is what can we do in 2016 and ‘17 to lay the seeds of success for 2018, and I’ll talk about those a
little bit. The Humana acquisition dramatically accelerates our accomplishment of our strategic objectives. And it does it in
two or three different ways. They have innovative pay for performance arrangements with strong quality components, and that will
help us reinvent and align the way that providers deliver care. They also have very strong care management capabilities, and this
is essential, and particularly in a retail type environment, in order to engage people and actually change their health trajectory.
So, they’ll help us with the quantity of care.
And also
their engagement works well in an environment where we have to win over each and every member, not just the groups, but the members.
So, they bring a lot to the table that will benefit every National Account plan sponsor, particularly by making us more effective
in each local market. They do not, however, bring a lot of national account membership. I don’t have the exact numbers,
I would guess they’re probably about one-tenth of our size, so I don’t see any tremendous integration issues within
national accounts, and that’s why I’m focused mainly on the medical cost and consumer engagement issues.
Thank you,
Darren. Hello everybody. How is everyone doing? Exciting times at Aetna. You don’t get to do a thirty-seven billion dollar
transaction every day, do you? And be part of a transformation in health care. So, this is a very exciting time, and as you can
imagine, will be very exciting and challenging over the course of the next year or so. But, it’s important for us to continue
to focus on our business, and equally important to focus on our National Account customers. I’ve actually had the opportunity
to spend time this last week. I called our top fifteen National Account customers to remind, you know, to talk about the transaction,
but equally important to tell them we remain committed to our National Account customers and that, I assured them that they would
see no deterioration in our service, and then they can count on Aetna to continue to be their partners. They’re very appreciative,
I actually just got off the phone with Justine Peddle from UPS, she’s really excited about the transaction, but more importantly
she’s really excited about some of the things that she’s heard from the National Account team recently on kind of
how Aetna is transforming and how we’re thinking about consumer orientation and how we’re thinking about the changing
landscape and the provider world. So, lots going on. I know Carl asked me to spend a few minutes with you this morning, this afternoon,
I guess. Well we’ll actually have some California people on, right?
Karen
Rohan
So, I’m
going to stop because I am sure, as I stand here today, that you have a billion questions to ask me about the transaction, about
National Accounts or just generally Aetna overall, and I’d be happy to answer questions any topic, any subject that might
be on your mind. So, I’ll look in the room first. Can we get phone, or no? You don’t want to know anything about the
Humana acquisition? You want to know anything about—
I’d
like to hear your thoughts on the synergies of the two organizations and what you think that does for us financially and from
a strategic standpoint.
The question
is about synergies related to the Humana acquisition. I think we know we disclosed it will have 1.25 billion dollars of synergies
between the two organizations. So, most of those synergies, about a billion of those, are in SGNA, at cost, overall administrative
cost. How do we get that? We get that through duplicate functions. A lot of corporate functions overlap, so you get that from
overlapping functions, you get that from having duplicate organizations, and you manage to those costs over time. Just like in
Coventry, we put you know four hundred and fifty million, we got over a billion dollars of synergies. So, our expectation is that
we’ll exceed that. We’ll, I can assure you that the goal that we have is to exceed it. But that’s how we’ll
get it. We’ll get it from systems, shutting down some systems that don’t make sense, stopping initiatives that both
of us do. So, you know, there’s, we both have technologies that support the consumer, we both have technologies that support
the provider, just like we did in Coventry where we did best of the best, that worked really well for us and we will employ the
best of breed at integration just like we did with Coventry. We have a very strong track record. And when we talk about synergies,
when we talk about SGNA, we do it in a very deliberate, focused fashion. We always put the customer first, and it’s important
that we don’t hurt the business and that we do it in a very
thoughtful
way. Now, do we have the answer to how we’re going to achieve that yet? No, we have a year, maybe a year and a half to figure
that out. And that’s what we do with integration planning. So, we will be putting together an integration team in very short
order. Their goal, just like we did in Coventry, so for a year, they have a year to figure out how we achieve that. So, this is,
it’s a very interesting transaction because it is very complimentary. They are—you know they had fifty plus billion
dollars in revenue; thirty-five plus billion of that revenue is Medicare Advantage. They’re very strong in Medicare Advantage.
And so, it gives us a bigger platform to play with, with Medicare. So, that will give us over four and a half million Medicare
Advantage members. In their commercial book, they walked away from national not that long ago and they pulled back. They said
to us when we were doing due diligence “we’re not that good at commercial, we think you’re far better.”
So, we know that that will give us a bigger platform for our commercial business. So, it is a very complementary set of assets.
And then they have very strong data analytics and tools to support their individual Medicare Advantage members, and they constantly
use their data analytics, just like, you know Amazon, you know you guys, everybody on Amazon, you know how they kind of send you
these things that oh, you might want to buy this, you might want to buy that, they had that sophistication in their data analytics
to interact and communicate to their individual members. That’s something we’ve been building, so we think they’ll
be advantages there as well. So, it’s an exciting, very exciting, don’t just focus on the synergy, synergies are for
us to get efficient, and one of the things that we did this transaction for is to improve the overall cost and affordability of
healthcare. And I think by bringing these two companies together, we have another opportunity to do just that. And as I said,
people count on us every day for their healthcare, well our job is to make sure that we’re maintaining the affordability
and access to healthcare, and this acquisition, I believe, will give us that opportunity to do so in a much bigger way. And besides,
we had a vision goal, a vision 2020 goal of a hundred billion dollars, we will achieve a hundred billion dollars when we close
the transaction. So, as Mark said yesterday, now we have a two hundred billion dollar goal. So, we’ll have to figure out,
you guys will have to help me figure out how to do that. So, that was a long answer to your question, but I wanted to kind of
put it in context for you. What questions?
In terms
of ACOs and that kind of spectrum that you laid out, where is Humana at relative to where we’re at in terms of moving along
that spectrum?
Right in
the middle. They are really pushing on the value-based approach that is their overall strategy, and they’re moving headlong
into value-based contracting. They’ve made some really good progress on that. They formed this company called Transcend,
so they’ve been working on it very diligently, so we are a hundred percent aligned on that concept and moving. And I think,
for those of you who heard Bruce Broussard talk yesterday, that they’re exceptionally passionate about that, because they
view, as we view, that the only way to improve the affordability of healthcare is having a better and different relationship with
the provider community. Other questions? Other questions on the phone? Alright, well I will give you four minutes back Mr. King,
thank you very much for letting me join you today [applause].
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