{"id":13180,"date":"2019-05-07T07:38:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13180"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:38:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:38:38","slug":"tennessee-will-seek-approval-to-use-medicaid-block-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13180","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee will seek approval to use Medicaid block grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee is poised to be the first state to ask the federal government to approve a plan for a Medicaid block grant, according to\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>State Republican lawmakers on May 2 signed off on a bill requiring the state to submit its plan to President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration within six months, the\u00a0<em>Politico\u00a0<\/em>report reads. A spokesperson told the publication Gov. Bill Lee will sign the bill.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/content\/tn.html\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13181\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TN-300x86.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TN-300x86.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TN.png 432w\" 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) Tennessee is poised to be the first state to ask the federal government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180","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=13180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13182,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180\/revisions\/13182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}