{"id":13050,"date":"2019-04-16T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13050"},"modified":"2019-04-16T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:53:07","slug":"primary-care-spending-in-the-medicare-program-is-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13050","title":{"rendered":"Primary care spending in the Medicare program is low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a RAND study, primary care spending as a percentage of total spending in the Medicare program is low. Primary care services spending by Medicare beneficiaries\u2019 range between just over two percent to nearly five percent.\u00a0 The RAND study analyzed spending by 16 million Medicare beneficiaries with fee-for-service coverage under Medicare Parts A and B, along with Part D prescription coverage during 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthleadersmedia.com\/finance\/primary-care-represents-less-5-medicare-spending\">Click here <\/a>to read more about the study findings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.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>According to a RAND study, primary care spending as a percentage of total spending in the Medicare program is low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050","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=13050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13051,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050\/revisions\/13051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}