{"id":1977,"date":"2016-02-14T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2016-03-01T08:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:58:36","slug":"medicare-telehealth-could-get-a-boost-from-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Telehealth could get a boost from legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation introduced earlier in February by Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi may pave the way for the use of new forms of technology in the handling of patient data.\u00a0Michaela Gibson Morris, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/djournal.com\/news\/legislation-aims-to-lift-medicare-telehealth-barriers\/\" target=\"_blank\">article posted on\u00a0djournal.com<\/a>, takes a look at the potential impact of this legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation introduced earlier in February by Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi may pave the way for the use of new forms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medical-technology","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}