{"id":7197,"date":"2017-06-23T08:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T12:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2017-06-23T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T12:39:44","slug":"what-determines-medicares-medical-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7197","title":{"rendered":"What Determines Medicare’s “Medical Necessity”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medicare pays only when a service is \u201cmedically necessary\u201d, also known as \u201creasonable and necessary\u201d, but what does that mean to a patient? The attached article focuses on how Medicare determines reasonable and necessity in order to pay or deny a claim. Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Medicare pays only when a service is \u201cmedically necessary\u201d, also known as \u201creasonable and necessary\u201d, but what does that mean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197","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=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}