{"id":3700,"date":"2016-07-26T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2016-07-26T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:19:58","slug":"medicares-new-mandatory-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3700","title":{"rendered":"Medicare\u2019s New Mandatory Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new mandatory program that would make hospitals in 98 random selected metropolitan areas financially accountable for the cost and quality of all care with bypass surgery and heart attacks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhealthcare.com\/article\/20160725\/NEWS\/160729934\/cms-proposes-mandatory-cardiac-bundled-payment-pilot?utm_campaign=KHN:%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=32092661&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ndZhnSzZKgT0hv7aNkAf9ycOv_e3dbrfcyCJbfEHuAhD7j9VB5PwRd2VpXFeaFawtKkcPtbPNbdL1ckMmd-Yq1RcNXw&amp;_hsmi=32092661\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new mandatory program that would make hospitals in 98 random<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","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=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}