{"id":18043,"date":"2021-04-21T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18043"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:22:33","slug":"congress-should-ease-hsa-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18043","title":{"rendered":"Congress should ease HSA rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Gelfand, senior vice president for health policy at The ERISA Industry Committee, spoke at the House Education and Labor health subcommittee hearing on behavioral and mental health care access on the effects of current health savings account (HSA) program rules on mental health care. Gelfand said \u201cCongress should also allow for \u201cfirst-dollar coverage\u201d for some mental health and behavioral health care.\u201d Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2021\/04\/20\/ease-hsa-users-access-to-mental-health-care-employer-group-to-congress-412-114968\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7788\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467.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>James Gelfand, senior vice president for health policy at The ERISA Industry Committee, spoke at the House Education and Labor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-hras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043","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=18043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18044,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions\/18044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}