{"id":631,"date":"2015-08-20T21:57:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T01:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=631"},"modified":"2015-08-20T21:57:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T01:57:01","slug":"the-trickle-down-of-health-plan-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"The Trickle Down Of Health Plan Mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Monica E. Oss,\u00a0www.openminds.com)<\/p>\n<p>Last month there was some big consolidation news in the world of health care \u2013 on July 3, 2015, Aetna and Humana announced a definitive agreement in which Aetna will acquire Humana for $37 billion (see Aetna To Acquire Humana For $37 Billion) and Anthem announced their pending acquisition of Cigna (see Anthem To Acquire Cigna In Largest Ever Health Insurance Deal). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openminds.com\/market-intelligence\/executive-briefings\/trickle-health-plan-mergers.htm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notice: The \u201cRead more\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Monica E. Oss,\u00a0www.openminds.com) Last month there was some big consolidation news in the world of health care \u2013 on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}