{"id":11689,"date":"2018-10-04T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2018-10-04T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:36:08","slug":"the-senate-passes-a-bipartisan-bill-aimed-at-fighting-the-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11689","title":{"rendered":"The Senate passes a bipartisan bill aimed at fighting the opioid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">On Wednesday, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill aimed at fighting the opioid crisis. The 660-page bill includes a range of measures from lifting some limits on Medicaid paying for care at addiction treatment facilities, cracking down on illicit opioids being imported by mail from other countries, and lifts limits on nurse practitioners and other providers being able to prescribe the addiction treatment drug buprenorphine.<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/409751-senate-sends-bipartisan-package-to-fight-opioid-epidemic-to-trumps-desk?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=66428089&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Vh0OMWb2Nr81Gi1Ora1Y78-JXJ65ZLQLhSW87ecRtclnTr1ywrEuqttZi9CtjS3QRzCYy5zY_6p5EGQOQKul0dhXCOw&amp;_hsmi=66428089\"> Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7797\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill aimed at fighting the opioid crisis. The 660-page bill includes a range<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689","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=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11690,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions\/11690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}