{"id":5851,"date":"2017-02-12T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2017-02-10T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:02:22","slug":"how-a-simple-fix-for-medicare-prescribing-problems-got-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5851","title":{"rendered":"How A Simple Fix For Medicare Prescribing Problems Got Complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Charles Ornstein for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, federal officials settled on what they thought would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/following-abuses-medicare-tightens-reins-on-its-drug-program\">a straightforward fix to curb abusive pill pushing<\/a>: Require doctors and other health providers to register with Medicare in order to prescribe medications for beneficiaries. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/02\/10\/514386151\/how-a-simple-fix-for-medicare-prescribing-problems-got-complicated\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"NPR logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/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>(By Charles Ornstein for NPR) Back in 2014, federal officials settled on what they thought would be a straightforward fix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851","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=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5852,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions\/5852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}