{"id":13185,"date":"2019-05-07T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2019-05-07T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:02:11","slug":"medicare-and-the-va-working-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13185","title":{"rendered":"Medicare and the VA working together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs has reached a deal with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to monitor the prescription drugs veterans receive outside the VA system as part of its effort to curb the potential for opioid abuse among veterans. This agreement between CMS and VA will usher in a \u201cnew level of information sharing between VA and CMS, which will improve care coordination and better protect our beneficiaries.\u201d Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2019\/05\/06\/va-makes-deal-medicare-monitor-drugs-prescribed-vets.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8765\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/VA-logo.png 600w\" 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>The Department of Veterans Affairs has reached a deal with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to monitor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-part-dprescription-drugs","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185","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=13185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13186,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions\/13186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}