{"id":15478,"date":"2020-03-17T12:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15478"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T16:43:03","slug":"medpacs-report-to-congress-7-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15478","title":{"rendered":"MedPAC&#8217;s report to Congress: 7 takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alia Paavola for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission released its March 2020 report on Medicare payment policy to Congress, which includes a chapter analyzing the effects of hospital and physician consolidation in the healthcare sector.<\/p>\n<p>Here are seven takeaways:\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/medpac-s-report-to-congress-7-takeaways.html?origin=RCME&amp;utm_source=RCME&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;oly_enc_id=0773J2160145A4E\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9942\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>(By Alia Paavola for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission released its March 2020 report on Medicare payment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478","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=15478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15479,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478\/revisions\/15479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}