{"id":20669,"date":"2022-12-20T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20669"},"modified":"2022-12-20T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:36:55","slug":"congress-reaches-major-health-policy-deal-on-medicare-medicaid-and-pandemic-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20669","title":{"rendered":"Congress reaches major health policy deal on Medicare, Medicaid, and pandemic preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Rachel Cohrs and Sarah Owermohle for Stat News on December 19, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Leaders in Congress have reached a sweeping deal to ease Medicare pay cuts to doctors, make major changes to post-pandemic Medicaid policy, and to help prepare for future pandemics.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/12\/19\/congress-reaches-major-health-policy-deal-on-medicare-medicaid-and-pandemic-preparedness\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" class=\"wp-image-15015\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg 583w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rachel Cohrs and Sarah Owermohle for Stat News on December 19, 2022 WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Leaders in Congress have reached a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,16,6],"tags":[357,61,94],"class_list":["post-20669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-legislative-update","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","tag-legislative-update","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20670,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions\/20670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}