{"id":17903,"date":"2021-03-26T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17903"},"modified":"2021-03-26T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:25:11","slug":"bill-delaying-medicare-payment-cuts-passes-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17903","title":{"rendered":"Bill delaying Medicare payment cuts passes Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Alia Paavola for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The Senate passed legislation March 25 that will delay $18 billion in Medicare payment cuts through the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The bill prevents a 2 percent federally mandated Medicare sequester cut from taking place. The federal payment cut was created in 2011 by the Budget Control Act to reduce federal spending by more than a trillion dollars by fiscal year 2021. The cuts target all industries, but Medicare spending specifically is subject to a cut of 2 percent annually.\u00a0 \u00a0Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/bill-delaying-medicare-payment-cuts-passes-senate.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7797\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.jpg 700w\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Alia Paavola for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The Senate passed legislation March 25 that will delay $18 billion in 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":[21,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903","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=17903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17904,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions\/17904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}