{"id":2848,"date":"2016-05-11T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2016-05-11T10:31:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:31:44","slug":"costs-keep-rising-long-term-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2848","title":{"rendered":"The Costs Keep Rising: Long-Term Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a survey from Genworth Financial, the cost of long-term care grew more expensive with the median annual bill of $92,378 for a private nursing home room. Medicare doesn\u2019t cover long-term stays, so people who need long-term care wind up spending down their assets until they qualify for Medicaid. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhealthcare.com\/article\/20160510\/NEWS\/160519999?utm_source=modernhealthcare&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=20160510-NEWS-160519999&amp;utm_campaign=dose\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a survey from Genworth Financial, the cost of long-term care grew more expensive with the median annual bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}