{"id":21268,"date":"2023-05-18T08:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21268"},"modified":"2023-05-18T08:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:37:22","slug":"senators-probing-largest-medicare-advantage-plans-over-how-algorithms-factor-in-care-denials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21268","title":{"rendered":"Senators probing largest Medicare Advantage plans over how algorithms factor in care denials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Bob Herman and Casey Ross for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senators warned the country\u2019s largest Medicare Advantage insurers at a hearing on Wednesday that they must abide by Medicare\u2019s coverage rules and cannot rely on algorithms to deny care that patients need.  Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/05\/17\/senate-investigation-medicare-advantage-algorithms-denials\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/05\/17\/senate-investigation-medicare-advantage-algorithms-denials\/\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"21\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/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 Bob Herman and Casey Ross for STAT) Senators warned the country\u2019s largest Medicare Advantage insurers at a hearing on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,9],"tags":[642,641,80,62,643],"class_list":["post-21268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-advantage","tag-algorithms-factor","tag-care-denials","tag-cms","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicares-coverage-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268","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=21268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21269,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268\/revisions\/21269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}