{"id":10088,"date":"2018-04-09T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10088"},"modified":"2018-04-09T10:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:39:48","slug":"medicare-advantage-plans-to-integrate-ride-sharing-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10088","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage plans to integrate ride-sharing services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it was \u201creinterpreting the standards for health-related supplemental benefits in the Medicare Advantage program to include additional services that increase health and improve quality of life.\u201d This new rule allowing health insurers to include more supplemental benefits may open the door to millions of ride-sharing trips via Uber or Lyft to the doctor\u2019s office, clinic or pharmacy for millions of elderly Americans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucejapsen\/2018\/04\/08\/for-uber-and-lyft-medicare-could-be-the-next-profitable-ride\/#58bc1b451b0f\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9740\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372-390x205.jpg 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dreamstime_m_10158600speed-racing-race-car-fast-hurry-700x372.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: 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>Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it was \u201creinterpreting the standards for health-related supplemental benefits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088","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=10088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10089,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions\/10089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}