{"id":9015,"date":"2017-12-21T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:34:04","slug":"insurers-bolstering-their-ties-to-medical-care-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9015","title":{"rendered":"Insurers bolstering their ties to medical care providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humana\u2019s agreement to spend $800 million for a stake in Kindred Healthcare\u2019s home care business signals Humana move to bolster their ties to medical care providers in a way that should funnel more seniors from doctors and clinics to their insurance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucejapsen\/2017\/12\/21\/humanas-home-care-play-escalates-battle-for-medicare-advantage-patients\/#20134049b81d\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_79028023seniors-older-group-aging-700x467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8395\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_79028023seniors-older-group-aging-700x467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_79028023seniors-older-group-aging-700x467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_79028023seniors-older-group-aging-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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>Humana\u2019s agreement to spend $800 million for a stake in Kindred Healthcare\u2019s home care business signals Humana move to bolster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015","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=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9016,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions\/9016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}