{"id":13534,"date":"2019-07-03T12:17:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13534"},"modified":"2019-07-03T12:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:17:35","slug":"the-government-is-looking-into-alternative-treatments-in-response-to-the-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13534","title":{"rendered":"The government is looking into alternative treatments in response to the opioid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare is considering whether to start covering acupuncture treatments as an alternative to additive pain medications. To provide \u201cmore evidence-based non-pharmacologic treatment options for chronic pain,\u201d several agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services are collaborating in studying whether there is enough evidence showing that acupuncture effectively treats chronic lower back pain. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/medicare-considering-whether-to-start-covering-acupuncture\">article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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>Medicare is considering whether to start covering acupuncture treatments as an alternative to additive pain medications. To provide \u201cmore evidence-based<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534","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=13534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13535,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534\/revisions\/13535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}