{"id":12228,"date":"2018-12-18T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:05:59","slug":"bipartisan-action-on-surprise-medical-bills-expected-next-year-senator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12228","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan action on surprise medical bills expected next year, senator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen.\u00a0Bill Cassidy, R-La., said federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are moving closer to an agreement on legislation to prevent surprise medical bills, according to a\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/about.bgov.com\/blog\/surprise-medical-bills-lawmaker-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg Government<\/a><\/em>\u00a0report.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/bipartisan-action-on-surprise-medical-bills-expected-next-year-senator-says.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8962\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-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>(By Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) U.S. Sen.\u00a0Bill Cassidy, R-La., said federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228","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=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12229,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions\/12229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}