{"id":8882,"date":"2017-12-09T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:31:34","slug":"walgreens-buys-40-stake-in-chinese-pharmacy-chain-for-416m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8882","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens buys 40% stake in Chinese pharmacy chain for $416M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for\u00a0 Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens Boots Alliance said Wednesday it would\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walgreensbootsalliance.com\/newsroom\/news\/walgreens-boots-alliance-to-invest-in-chinese-pharmacy-chain-guoda.htm\">invest<\/a>\u00a0about $416 million to acquire a 40 percent stake in Sinopharm Holding GuoDa Drugstores, which operates and franchises retail pharmacies across China. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/walgreens-buys-40-stake-in-chinese-pharmacy-chain-for-416m.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-symbol-medicare-doctor-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7801\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-symbol-medicare-doctor--300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-symbol-medicare-doctor--300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-symbol-medicare-doctor-.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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 Ayla Ellison for\u00a0 Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens Boots Alliance said Wednesday it would\u00a0invest\u00a0about $416 million to acquire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882","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=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8883,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions\/8883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}