{"id":16583,"date":"2020-08-05T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16583"},"modified":"2020-08-05T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:10:05","slug":"cms-announces-a-temporary-policy-for-premium-reductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16583","title":{"rendered":"CMS Announces a Temporary Policy for Premium Reductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov\/newsroom)<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">Today,\u00a0<\/span>as part of the agency\u2019s efforts to facilitate the nation\u2019s response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (\u201cCOVID-19\u201d) public health emergency (PHE), the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a policy that will allow issuers to offer temporary premium reductions for individuals with 2020 coverage in the individual and small group markets. CMS is providing this additional flexibility to help ensure that consumers struggling to pay their premiums can continue to be covered and receive the care they may need during this time.\u00a0 \u00a0Continue reading press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-announces-temporary-policy-premium-reductions\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-e1524659904197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10228\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/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>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov\/newsroom) Today,\u00a0as part of the agency\u2019s efforts to facilitate the nation\u2019s response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (\u201cCOVID-19\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583","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=16583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16584,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions\/16584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}