{"id":718,"date":"2015-08-24T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=718"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:08:14","slug":"consider-advance-care-planning-needs-for-lgbt-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Consider Advance Care Planning Needs for LGBT Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"author-name-no-email\">Nancy Berlinger, PhD, and Jane Lowers,\u00a0www.medpagetoday.com)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The recent announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) that it will\u00a0reimburse health care professionals for voluntary advance care planning starting January 1, 2016 means that professionals who treat Medicare patients will be able to dedicate time to a process of planning for end-of-life decision-making with patients, and often with surrogate decision-makers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/PrimaryCare\/GeneralPrimaryCare\/53203\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Nancy Berlinger, PhD, and Jane Lowers,\u00a0www.medpagetoday.com)\u00a0 The recent announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) that it<\/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-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}