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Hello! I'm E, a representative for Humana. I saw that this article had a promotional tag on it that is over a decade old. Specifically, it mentions "removing promotional language and inappropriate external links"
I looked into the history and the tag seems to be pertaining to an old "Humana's Prescription Home Delivery" section with a link to the service both in the reference and in the External links section. You can see it here
That section and link have since been removed and editors will see the page overall has been substantially changed since the tag was added in 2013. Would an editor remove this tag? Because of my conflict of interest, I will not make direct changes to the article. Thanks! E Humana (talk) 20:43, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm unclear why the tag was added. There's no edit summary nor corresponding talk page discussion.
Skimming the current references, it appears the article is heavily dependent upon press releases and similarly poor and promotional sources. Given this, the template still seems to fit, specifically, adding encyclopedic text written from a neutral point of view. --Hipal (talk) 21:34, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented.
Thanks Hipal I see what you mean! I did some research and found sourcing more in line with what Wikipedia requires. The draft can be found in my user space, a quick breakdown is as follows:
Extended content
Kept sentence, added new source:
In 1993, Humana had become the largest hospital operator in the country, owning 77 hospitals.[1]
Humana is the official health benefits provider of the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.[2]
In May 2011, Humana announced it would be using mobileStorm to transmit protected health information to patients.[4]
In July 2015, Aetna announced that it would acquire Humana for $37 billion in cash and stock (approximately $230 a share at that time). Aetna and Humana shareholders would own 74% and 26% of the new combined company, however the merger was blocked by a federal judge in January 2017.[5]
In December 2019, the company announced it would acquire Enclara Healthcare from Consonance Capital Partners and Enclara management.[6]
In February 2023, Humana announced they were exiting the employer-based commercial group insurance market.[7]
Humana is the presenting sponsor of the Grand Ole Opry[8] and the National Senior Games.[9]
Since 1979, Humana has been a principal sponsor of the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky.[10]
On December 22, 2022, the Department of Defense announced the award of the managed care support contract for the TRICARE East Region to Humana Military.[11]
On May 30, 1996, Linda Peeno, a physician who was contracted to work for Humana for nine months, testified before Congress as to the downside of managed care. Peeno said she was effectively rewarded by her employer for causing the death of a patient, because it saved the company a half-million dollars. Peeno stated that she felt the "managed care" model was inherently unethical.[12]
In July 2018, Humana joined two private equity firms in the acquisition of Kindred Healthcare. The deal provided Humana with a 40% stake in the company's home health, hospice and community care businesses, called "Kindred at Home," for approximately $800 million.
Note: This had a Forbes Contributor source and the other source did not verify 100% of the sentence, so I swapped Forbes with Fierce Healthcare.
In 2021, Susan Diamond, formerly occupying an interim position, was announced to be the new permanent CFO. Her appointment to the position comes with the company's focus being turned towards the home healthcare business, acquiring in April of the same year a 60% stake in Kindred at Home, an in-home care and hospice business.[13]
Note: The article currently uses three sources, one of which is a press release. The WSJ article verifies all information in the sentence, so the other two were removed.
Rewrote sentence with new source:
Old: In 2024, the company ranked 92 on the Fortune 500 list, which made it the highest ranked (by revenues) company based in Kentucky.
New: Humana ranked No. 39 on the 2025 United States Fortune 500 list and No. 85 on the 2025 Global Fortune 500 list.[14][15]
Old: The Humana Distaff Handicap is a Grade 1 race for thoroughbred fillies and mares, four-years-old and up. The race is run each spring on Kentucky Derby day at Churchill Downs and set at a distance of 7 furlongs for a purse of $250,000.
New: The Derby City Distaff Stakes was created in 1987. In 1995, Humana became its sponsor; the race was named the Humana Distaff Handicap from 1995-2006 and the Humana Distaff from 2007-2019.[16][17]
Old: It is the fourth largest health insurance provider in the U.S.
New: It was the sixth-largest insurer in the world, as of 2025.[18]
Removed sentence due to lack of sourcing source:
During this period, Humana developed the double corridor model for hospital construction. This design minimized the distance between patients and nurses by placing nursing support services in the interior of the building with patient rooms surrounding the perimeter.
On November 16, 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Humana Inc. partnered to expand on traditional private-sector approaches to population health management.
LPGA player Nancy Scranton was a spokesperson for Humana.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in a letter to the insurance industry, threatened that bad actors may be excluded from new health insurance markets that were to open in 2014. Senate Republicans pointed out in a letter to Sebelius that a 1997 directive from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services explicitly allowed HMOs to tell members about legislation and urge them to express opinions.
Note: This was specifically removed because it is not about Humana
Thank you. That's a lot to review. Glancing over it, a lot of the references look to be press releases or the like. It will take some careful reviewing to go over them all. --Hipal (talk) 15:49, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies for not getting back to this sooner. I'm afraid that I still have little time to put into this, nor do I expect that will change in the coming months.
Re PGA: Are there sources that can verify that it is ongoing? Without them, the statement fails verification.
Re Avality, mobileStorm, Enclara Healthcare, etc : Why are they important to Humana?
Re PGA: That is a good point and you are right about the point in time, since there is sourcing to show more concrete dates. Here is a better proposal:
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Humana was a tour partner of the PGA Tour beginning in 2005. It served as the official health benefits provider of the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.[1] In 2014, the company announced it would end its sponsorship after the 2015 event.[2]
Re Avality, mobileStorm, Enclara Healthcare, etc: I was looking more at sourcing than considering WP:DUE. As for WP:ENCYCLOPEDIC, I do think acquisitions, subsidiaries, divisions etc. do have enough knowledge value to warrant inclusion.
Let me know if you have any other questions! I understand you're busy and this will take a closer eye, I will just check in intermittently like I have been to see if you had any new thoughts. Thanks, E Humana (talk) 22:05, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reminder about this. Re PGA tour sponsor:
The Sports Business Journal ref appears to be a warmed-over press release, so I'm unsure how much to rely upon it.
Maybe just
Humana was a tour partner of the PGA Tour beginning from 2005 to 2015.[1][2]
Hipal Thanks for the update! Did you have any thoughts or questions on the sourcing updates and fixes in the above initial request in the expand box? If it helps, I can break out a new request to remove what has been done already. Just let me know! E Humana (talk) 17:36, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, breaking out new request(s) would help. Maybe group together simple requests that you feel should be easy to review and straightforward to approve. --Hipal (talk) 17:51, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Per Hipal I have taken the previous request seen above and removed what has already been done so the outstanding items can be evaluated.
Only source updating
These are sentences that can stay the same but should have a new source swapped, since the current one is not up to guidelines. The proposed source verifies the sentences as they are.
In 1993, Humana had become the largest hospital operator in the country, owning 77 hospitals.[3]
In May 2011, Humana announced it would be using mobileStorm to transmit protected health information to patients.[5]
In July 2015, Aetna announced that it would acquire Humana for $37 billion in cash and stock (approximately $230 a share at that time). Aetna and Humana shareholders would own 74% and 26% of the new combined company, however the merger was blocked by a federal judge in January 2017.[6]
In December 2019, the company announced it would acquire Enclara Healthcare from Consonance Capital Partners and Enclara management.[7]
In February 2023, Humana announced they were exiting the employer-based commercial group insurance market.[8]
Humana is the presenting sponsor of the Grand Ole Opry[9] and the National Senior Games.[10]
Since 1979, Humana has been a principal sponsor of the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky.[11]
On December 22, 2022, the Department of Defense announced the award of the managed care support contract for the TRICARE East Region to Humana Military.[12]
On May 30, 1996, Linda Peeno, a physician who was contracted to work for Humana for nine months, testified before Congress as to the downside of managed care. Peeno said she was effectively rewarded by her employer for causing the death of a patient, because it saved the company a half-million dollars. Peeno stated that she felt the "managed care" model was inherently unethical.[13]
In July 2018, Humana joined two private equity firms in the acquisition of Kindred Healthcare. The deal provided Humana with a 40% stake in the company's home health, hospice and community care businesses, called "Kindred at Home," for approximately $800 million.
Note: This had a Forbes Contributor source and the other source did not verify 100% of the sentence, so I swapped Forbes with Fierce Healthcare.
In 2021, Susan Diamond, formerly occupying an interim position, was announced to be the new permanent CFO. Her appointment to the position comes with the company's focus being turned towards the home healthcare business, acquiring in April of the same year a 60% stake in Kindred at Home, an in-home care and hospice business.[14]
Note: The article currently uses three sources, one of which is a press release. The WSJ article verifies all information in the sentence, so the other two were removed.
These are sentences where the current source is not up to guidelines. An alternative source was located, but it does not verify the current sentence so a rewrite is needed.
Old: In 2024, the company ranked 92 on the Fortune 500 list, which made it the highest ranked (by revenues) company based in Kentucky.
New: Humana ranked No. 39 on the 2025 United States Fortune 500 list and No. 85 on the 2025 Global Fortune 500 list.[1][2]
Old: The Humana Distaff Handicap is a Grade 1 race for thoroughbred fillies and mares, four-years-old and up. The race is run each spring on Kentucky Derby day at Churchill Downs and set at a distance of 7 furlongs for a purse of $250,000.
New: The Derby City Distaff Stakes was created in 1987. In 1995, Humana became its sponsor; the race was named the Humana Distaff Handicap from 1995-2006 and the Humana Distaff from 2007-2019.[3][4]
Old: It is the fourth largest health insurance provider in the U.S.
New: It was the sixth-largest insurer in the world, as of 2025.[5]
These are sentences where the current source is not up to guidelines and I have not been able to locate an alternative source, so I am proposing removal of the sentence entirely.
During this period, Humana developed the double corridor model for hospital construction. This design minimized the distance between patients and nurses by placing nursing support services in the interior of the building with patient rooms surrounding the perimeter.[citation needed]
On November 16, 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Humana Inc. partnered to expand on traditional private-sector approaches to population health management.[1]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in a letter to the insurance industry, threatened that bad actors may be excluded from new health insurance markets that were to open in 2014. Senate Republicans pointed out in a letter to Sebelius that a 1997 directive from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services explicitly allowed HMOs to tell members about legislation and urge them to express opinions.[citation needed]
Note: This last one was specifically removed because it is not about Humana
I've changed the tag to partially implemented. I don't see my schedule opening up enough for continuing to work on this alone in a timely manner. --Hipal (talk) 17:04, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
