{"id":7762,"date":"2017-08-12T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2017-08-11T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:48:02","slug":"medicaid-bill-backlog-pushing-illinois-doctors-to-the-brink-of-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7762","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid Bill Backlog Pushing Illinois Doctors To The Brink Of Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christine Herman for Side Effects Public Media)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3d3d3d; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.08px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0.4px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">After 18 years serving the Metro East region of Illinois, pediatrician Kristin Stahl is crafting an exit strategy &#8211; and may eventually close her practice. \u00a0Two years of unpaid bills during the state\u2019s budget impasse have driven her into debt and to the end of her patience.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sideeffectspublicmedia.org\/post\/medicaid-bill-backlog-pushing-illinois-doctors-brink-closure\">\u00a0Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3d3d3d; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.08px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0.4px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u00a0This story was produced by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sideeffectspublicmedia.org\/\">Side Effects Public Media,<\/a>\u00a0a news collaborative covering public health.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/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>(By Christine Herman for Side Effects Public Media) After 18 years serving the Metro East region of Illinois, pediatrician Kristin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762","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=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7763,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions\/7763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}