{"id":5905,"date":"2017-02-18T04:27:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2017-02-17T12:29:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T17:29:22","slug":"4-key-events-since-judge-blocked-anthem-cigna-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5905","title":{"rendered":"4 key events since judge blocked Anthem-Cigna deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. District Court judge\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/judge-blocks-54b-anthem-cigna-deal-7-things-to-know.html\">sided<\/a>\u00a0with the Justice Department Feb. 8 and blocked Indianapolis-based Anthem&#8217;s proposed $54 billion acquisition of Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna, stating the combined payer entity would hurt consumers and hamper innovation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/4-key-events-since-judge-blocked-anthem-cigna-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A U.S. District Court judge\u00a0sided\u00a0with the Justice Department Feb. 8 and blocked Indianapolis-based<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","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=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}