{"id":13331,"date":"2019-06-03T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13331"},"modified":"2019-06-03T08:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:38:02","slug":"robin-hood-to-rescue-of-rural-hospitals-new-math-promised-on-medicare-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13331","title":{"rendered":"Robin Hood To Rescue Of Rural Hospitals? New Math Promised On Medicare Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>As rural hospital closures roil the country, some states are banking on a Trump administration proposal to change the way hospital payments are calculated to rescue them.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the proposal, unveiled by Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma last month, is to bump up Medicare\u2019s reimbursements to rural hospitals, some of which receive the lowest rates in the nation.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/robin-hood-to-rescue-of-rural-hospitals-new-math-promised-on-medicare-payments\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=73280003&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9pBQPe0-F2ojUEPhulYsAtzCu3Uq2Tp3jB5f8nYcmq765w1ynEkUfNd03mFYVVZ3-4bQ5fgXQmHS0A_qGhEb2bGHv4JA&amp;_hsmi=73280003\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" 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>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News) As rural hospital closures roil the country, some states are banking on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331","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=13331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13332,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331\/revisions\/13332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}