{"id":3145,"date":"2016-06-09T05:35:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T09:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2016-06-08T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:37:39","slug":"medicare-saved-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Saved $4 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has saved $4 billion over five years on payments through the process of rebid (a competitive bidding program required by law) for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and other supplies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcarefinancenews.com\/news\/medicare-saves-over-4-billion-durable-medical-equipment\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026..<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has saved $4 billion over five years on payments through the process of rebid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","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=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}