{"id":12667,"date":"2019-02-15T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12667"},"modified":"2019-02-15T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T15:08:08","slug":"medicare-ambulance-rides-could-include-option-of-going-to-a-urgent-care-or-doctors-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12667","title":{"rendered":"Medicare ambulance rides could include option of going to a urgent care or doctor&#8217;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Medicare officials announced a pilot project to change how it pays for emergency ambulance services to give seniors more options besides going to a hospital emergency department. Some of the other options could include going to an urgent care center, a doctor\u2019s office, or even treatment at home under supervision of a doctor via telehealth links. <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/medicare-ambulance-rides-longer-end-er-61084823\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png 544w\" 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>Medicare officials announced a pilot project to change how it pays for emergency ambulance services to give seniors more options<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667","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=12667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12668,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667\/revisions\/12668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}