{"id":6837,"date":"2017-05-22T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6837"},"modified":"2017-05-22T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:59:27","slug":"650-groups-call-on-congress-to-eliminate-medicare-budget-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6837","title":{"rendered":"650 groups call on Congress to eliminate Medicare budget panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than 650 healthcare organizations sent a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlc.org\/app\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-Letter-with-Signers1.pdf\">letter<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to Congress May 18 calling for repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a 15-member board established under the ACA to slow the rise of healthcare costs.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/650-groups-call-on-congress-to-eliminate-medicare-budget-panel.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/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 Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) More than 650 healthcare organizations sent a\u00a0letter\u00a0to Congress May 18 calling for repeal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","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=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}