{"id":5586,"date":"2017-01-13T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2017-01-13T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:32:43","slug":"financial-assistance-for-dialysis-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5586","title":{"rendered":"Financial Assistance for Dialysis Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in Sherman, Texas stopped a new federal rule that was to take effect on Friday, January 13, 2017, that requires dialysis providers to disclose to insurers any charitable assistance their patients are receiving for their care. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-fresenius-medi-regulations-idUSKBN14W34R?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=40609549&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_OZ-i9X7fznozm9IrjP9vHNzOQrrT6css8fYxW6QrhCkHOSckwF1CZ7gFklSTvn9dVp-3qcLrNIWaDCJyz8lfPhLS7Yg&amp;_hsmi=40609549\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/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>U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in Sherman, Texas stopped a new federal rule that was to take effect on Friday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","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=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}