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Health insurer Cigna's profit rises as it adds more members


    (Reuters) - Health insurer Cigna Corp , which agreed to be bought by Anthem Inc for $47 billion this month, reported a 2.6 percent rise in quarterly profit as it added more members in its commercial and government businesses.

    The company said net profit rose to $588 million or $2.26 per share, for the second quarter ended June 30, from $573 million, or $2.12 per share, a year earlier.

    Revenue rose about 9 percent to $9.49 billion.

    (Reporting by Amrutha Penumudi in Bengaluru; Editing by Simon Jennings)