{"id":5050,"date":"2016-11-17T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2016-11-17T09:08:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:08:27","slug":"a-consumers-guide-to-medicares-new-rules-on-doctor-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5050","title":{"rendered":"A Consumer\u2019s Guide To Medicare\u2019s New Rules On Doctor Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Steven Findlay for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2016\/10\/14\/hhs-finalizes-streamlined-medicare-payment-system-rewards-clinicians-quality-patient-care.html#\" target=\"_blank\">final regulations<\/a> that reform the way Medicare pays doctors. If the new rules achieve their intended goal, all Americans \u2014 and not just Medicare enrollees \u2014 could see improvements in the quality of their care. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/a-consumers-guide-to-medicares-new-rules-on-doctor-pay\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=37787896&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_oT7vQCm5TtI7H8y6dfOmTnFQCE0HG8X9t2OjgJqkVcpho9wRejYvzaBTPtimV16MbgBSc7GJr9rsxGiQOsYqX0YoVFg&amp;_hsmi=37787896\" target=\"_blank\">Continue to read article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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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>(By Steven Findlay for Kaiser Health News) The federal government has issued final regulations that reform the way Medicare pays<\/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-5050","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\/5050","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=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}