{"id":13704,"date":"2019-07-31T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13704"},"modified":"2019-07-31T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:31:03","slug":"the-house-has-okd-a-unique-patient-identifier-heres-what-should-happen-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13704","title":{"rendered":"The House has OK\u2019d a unique patient identifier. Here\u2019s what should happen next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shaun Grannis, John D. Halamka, and Ben Moscovitch for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">I<\/span><\/span>t isn\u2019t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that\u2019s been in place for two decades. But that\u2019s what happened last month, when Democrats and Republicans alike voted for a measure designed to address a perennial problem that undermines medical record-keeping, puts patients at risk, and costs our health care system billions of dollars every year.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/07\/31\/unique-patient-identifier\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">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.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shaun Grannis, John D. Halamka, and Ben Moscovitch for STAT) It isn\u2019t every day that the House of Representatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704","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=13704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13705,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions\/13705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}