{"id":12727,"date":"2019-02-27T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12727"},"modified":"2019-02-27T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:12:54","slug":"justice-department-calls-for-final-approval-in-cvs-aetna-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12727","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department calls for final approval in CVS-Aetna merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice formally requested a judge sign off on its settlement to allow CVS Health to acquire Aetna for about $70 billion, according to\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/justice-department-calls-for-final-approval-in-cvs-aetna-merger.html?origin=ceo&amp;utm_source=ceoe\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9098\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal.jpg 225w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/department-of-justice-seal-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The Department of Justice formally requested a judge sign off on its settlement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12728,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727\/revisions\/12728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}