{"id":13066,"date":"2026-05-05T03:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13066"},"modified":"2026-05-05T03:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:03:47","slug":"is-the-atrium-wakemed-merger-already-hitting-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13066","title":{"rendered":"Is the Atrium-WakeMed Merger Already Hitting a Wall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/05\/merger-north-carolina\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A proposed merger between Atrium Health and WakeMed Health is facing an early delay, with county commissioners having postponed a key vote over transparency concerns. State officials are warning the deal could hurt competition and drive up healthcare costs in the Raleigh area.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/05\/merger-north-carolina\/\">Is the Atrium-WakeMed Merger Already Hitting a Wall?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed merger between Atrium Health and WakeMed Health is facing an early delay, with county commissioners having postponed a key vote over transparency concerns. State officials are warning the deal could hurt competition and drive up healthcare costs in the Raleigh area. The post Is the Atrium-WakeMed Merger Already Hitting a Wall? appeared first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}