{"id":1527,"date":"2015-12-30T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2015-12-30T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T15:29:52","slug":"statement-by-the-press-secretary-on-h-r-1321-s-2425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 1321, S. 2425"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; whitehouse.gov)<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, December 28, 2015, the President signed into law:<\/p>\n<p>H.R. 1321, the \u201cMicrobead-Free Waters Act of 2015,\u201d which prohibits the manufacture and introduction into interstate commerce of rinse-off cosmetics containing intentionally-added plastic microbeads; and<\/p>\n<p>S. 2425, the \u201cPatient Access and Medicare Protection Act,\u201d which makes changes to Medicare payments for certain complex rehabilitation technology and radiation therapy services, provide flexibility in applying a hardship exception from meaningful use of electronic health records, and improve Medicare and Medicaid program integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; whitehouse.gov) On Monday, December 28, 2015, the President signed into law: H.R. 1321, the \u201cMicrobead-Free Waters Act of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}