{"id":19453,"date":"2022-02-01T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19453"},"modified":"2022-02-01T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:09:19","slug":"congress-is-asking-for-continued-federal-funding-for-medicare-telehealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19453","title":{"rendered":"Congress is asking for continued federal funding for Medicare telehealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many lawmakers have co-signed a letter addressed to the Congressional leadership requesting the expansion of telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries. The bipartisan group of lawmakers stated, \u201ctelehealth has been a critical tool during the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure that patients continue to receive the health care they need while keeping health care providers and patients safe.\u201d Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/policy\/2022\/01\/lawmakers-request-continued-telehealth-expansion-medicare\/361391\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/policy\/2022\/01\/lawmakers-request-continued-telehealth-expansion-medicare\/361391\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-8962\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><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>Many lawmakers have co-signed a letter addressed to the Congressional leadership requesting the expansion of telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,52,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-pandemic","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19453","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=19453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19454,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19453\/revisions\/19454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}