{"id":529,"date":"2015-08-15T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=529"},"modified":"2015-08-15T09:46:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:46:27","slug":"viewpoints-revamp-medicares-3-day-hospital-rule-setting-a-fair-price-for-specialty-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Viewpoints: Revamp Medicare\u2019s 3-Day Hospital Rule; Setting A Fair Price For Specialty Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"headline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/editorials\/2015\/08\/14\/Worn-out-rule-Medicare-should-rethink-its-3-day-hospital-stay\/stories\/201508150007\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Worn-Out Rule: Medicare Should Rethink Its 3-Day Hospital Stay <\/a><br \/>\nFifty years ago hospital stays were longer, patient outcomes weren\u2019t as good and health care in general was riskier business. So why does Medicare cling to a rule from 1965 that requires people to stay in the hospital for three days as an inpatient before being transferred to a skilled nursing care facility? That\u2019s the question being raised by a study that was published last week in the journal Health Affairs and led by Amal N. Trivedi, a professor at Brown University. (8\/14) <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/morning-breakout\/viewpoints-revamp-medicares-3-day-hospital-rule-setting-a-fair-price-for-specialty-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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>(Source &#8211; Kaiser Health News) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Worn-Out Rule: Medicare Should Rethink Its 3-Day Hospital Stay Fifty years ago hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}