{"id":22263,"date":"2023-12-28T09:13:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22263"},"modified":"2023-12-28T09:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:13:06","slug":"senators-concerned-medicare-advantage-plans-deny-long-term-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22263","title":{"rendered":"Senators concerned Medicare Advantage plans deny long-term care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pair of senators are asking CMS to require Medicare Advantage plans to cover stays in long-term care facilities at the same rate as traditional Medicare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, and Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, wrote a letter to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Dec. 21, asking the agency to clarify MA plans cannot use different standards to approve long-term care than traditional Medicare.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/senators-concerned-medicare-advantage-plans-deny-long-term-care.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/senators-concerned-medicare-advantage-plans-deny-long-term-care.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-7797\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525-300x225.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 Rylee Wilson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A pair of senators are asking CMS to require Medicare Advantage plans to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,45,6,9],"tags":[80,137,61,62,94,1055],"class_list":["post-22263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-ltc","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-long-term-care","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-older-adults","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22263","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=22263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22264,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22263\/revisions\/22264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}