{"id":10705,"date":"2018-06-18T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10705"},"modified":"2018-06-18T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:09:45","slug":"medpac-releases-june-report-to-congress-7-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10705","title":{"rendered":"MedPAC releases June report to Congress: 7 takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/medpac.gov\/docs\/default-source\/publications\/june2018_medpac_report_newsrelease_sec.pdf?sfvrsn=0\">released<\/a>\u00a0its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/medpac.gov\/docs\/default-source\/reports\/jun18_medpacreporttocongress_sec.pdf?sfvrsn=0\">June 2018 report<\/a>\u00a0on Medicare and healthcare delivery to Congress, which includes two recommendations to ensure appropriate access to and use of hospital emergency department services in rural and urban areas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/medpac-releases-june-report-to-congress-7-takeaways.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9942\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image.jpg 500w\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has\u00a0released\u00a0its\u00a0June 2018 report\u00a0on Medicare and healthcare delivery to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705","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=10705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10706,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions\/10706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}