{"id":24699,"date":"2025-07-28T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24699"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:14:13","slug":"the-prompt-and-fair-pay-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24699","title":{"rendered":"The Prompt and Fair Pay Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Prompt and Fair Pay Act (H.R. 4559) was introduced to Congress last week. This bipartisan legislation addresses concerns regarding the reimbursement practices of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, which have been criticized for underpaying and delaying payments to healthcare providers. Katie Adams, writing for MedCity News, explains how the bill seeks to establish parity between Medicare Advantage Health plans and Traditional Medicare Payments. Read Ms. Adams\u2019 article <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/07\/healthcare-medicare-hospital\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/07\/healthcare-medicare-hospital\/\">here\u2026<\/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>\u00a0The 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>The Prompt and Fair Pay Act (H.R. 4559) was introduced to Congress last week. This bipartisan legislation addresses concerns regarding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,6,9],"tags":[385,238,61,62,1848],"class_list":["post-24699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-the-prompt-and-fair-pay-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24699","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=24699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24700,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24699\/revisions\/24700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}