{"id":21043,"date":"2023-03-28T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21043"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:13:12","slug":"congressman-seeks-to-plug-shocking-loophole-exposed-by-khn-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21043","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Seeks to Plug \u2018Shocking Loophole\u2019 Exposed by KHN Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A U.S. lawmaker is taking action after a KHN investigation exposed weaknesses in the federal system meant to stop repeat Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) said he decided to introduce a bill in the House late last week after KHN\u2019s reporting revealed what he called a \u201cshocking loophole.\u201d  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/cms-exclusions-loopholes-congress-legislation\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/cms-exclusions-loopholes-congress-legislation\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" 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 Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News) A U.S. lawmaker is taking action after a KHN investigation exposed weaknesses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,21,10,16,6],"tags":[67,545,61,326],"class_list":["post-21043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dhs-oig","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","tag-medicaid","tag-medicaid-fraud","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043","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=21043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21044,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043\/revisions\/21044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}