{"id":6758,"date":"2017-05-12T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2017-05-12T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:23:46","slug":"judge-rules-cigna-can-abandon-54b-mega-merger-with-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6758","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules Cigna can abandon $54B mega-merger with Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Delaware judge denied Indianapolis-based Anthem&#8217;s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/anthem-seeks-60-day-preliminary-injunction-to-halt-cigna-from-terminating-deal.html\">request<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for a preliminary injunction Thursday to stop Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna from leaving the insurers&#8217; $54 billion merger deal, according to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-05-11\/cigna-wins-judge-s-approval-to-walk-away-from-anthem-merger\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/judge-rules-cigna-can-abandon-54b-mega-merger-with-anthem.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 Delaware judge denied Indianapolis-based Anthem&#8217;s\u00a0request\u00a0for a preliminary injunction Thursday to stop Bloomfield,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","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=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6759,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}