{"id":25460,"date":"2026-01-20T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25460"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:02:34","slug":"h-r-5454-medicare-advantage-prompt-pay-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25460","title":{"rendered":"H.R.5454 Medicare Advantage Prompt Pay Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Medicare Advantage Prompt Pay Act, H.R.5454, is bipartisan legislation introduced in Congress to address issues related to the reimbursement practices of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The act seeks to improve payment timelines for healthcare providers and protect seniors from unexpected medical bills due to delayed payments. Ron Southwick, writing for Chief Healthcare Executive, explains why this legislation is needed. Read Mr. Southwick\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chiefhealthcareexecutive.com\/view\/pushing-medicare-advantage-plans-to-pay-providers-promptly-bills-and-laws\">here\u2026<\/a><\/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 Medicare Advantage Prompt Pay Act, H.R.5454, is bipartisan legislation introduced in Congress to address issues related to the reimbursement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9],"tags":[80,2002,238,61,62,2003,94],"class_list":["post-25460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-h-r-5454","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-advantage-prompt-pay-act","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25460","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=25460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25461,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25460\/revisions\/25461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}