{"id":17456,"date":"2021-01-08T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17456"},"modified":"2021-01-08T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:20:07","slug":"the-consolidated-appropriations-act-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17456","title":{"rendered":"The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late December, after several days of closed-door negotiations, congress passed a legislative package containing a mixture of Medicare policy changes. The Act or the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, includes significant payment adjustments, rural health improvements, transparency requirements for certain manufacturers of drugs covered under Medicare Part B, and fixes to long-standing coverage and benefit issues. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manatt.com\/insights\/newsletters\/manatt-on-health\/year-end-appropriations-bill-includes-myriad-medic\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15015\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg 583w\" 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 late December, after several days of closed-door negotiations, congress passed a legislative package containing a mixture of Medicare policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,10,6,15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","category-price-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17456","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=17456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17457,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17456\/revisions\/17457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}