{"id":25871,"date":"2026-04-22T07:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25871"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:43:48","slug":"cms-pauses-weight-loss-balance-model-for-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25871","title":{"rendered":"CMS pauses weight-loss BALANCE model for Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMS is holding off on its voluntary \u201cBetter Approaches to Lifestyle and Nutrition for Comprehensive hEalth\u201d model pilot for Medicare Part D, the agency confirmed to Becker\u2019s April 21.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/uncategorized\/cms-pauses-weight-loss-balance-model-indefinitely-for-medicare\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/uncategorized\/cms-pauses-weight-loss-balance-model-indefinitely-for-medicare\/\">here&#8230;<\/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>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS is holding off on its voluntary \u201cBetter Approaches to Lifestyle and Nutrition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,15],"tags":[2058,80,238,65],"class_list":["post-25871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-balance","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871","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=25871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25872,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871\/revisions\/25872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}