{"id":16692,"date":"2020-08-21T07:52:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16692"},"modified":"2020-08-21T07:52:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:52:38","slug":"highmark-provides-face-coverings-to-medicare-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16692","title":{"rendered":"Highmark provides face coverings to Medicare members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent survey conducted by Highmark, the fourth-largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 87 percent of Medicare members rated having personal protective equipment (PPE) available to them as an important or extremely important factor in returning to their doctor\u2019s office for non-urgent visits.\u00a0 In response, Highmark is sending cloth face coverings to Direct Pay Medicare members in Pennsylvania and West Virginia as part of its one million face covering initiative. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtap.com\/2020\/08\/20\/highmark-provides-face-coverings-to-medicare-members-as-part-of-1-million-face-covering-initiative\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dreamstime_s_184716109Personal-Protecrive-Equipment-PPE-mask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16393\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dreamstime_s_184716109Personal-Protecrive-Equipment-PPE-mask-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dreamstime_s_184716109Personal-Protecrive-Equipment-PPE-mask-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dreamstime_s_184716109Personal-Protecrive-Equipment-PPE-mask-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dreamstime_s_184716109Personal-Protecrive-Equipment-PPE-mask-390x205.jpg 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dreamstime_s_184716109Personal-Protecrive-Equipment-PPE-mask.jpg 800w\" 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>In a recent survey conducted by Highmark, the fourth-largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 87 percent of Medicare members rated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692","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=16692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16693,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions\/16693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}