{"id":9315,"date":"2018-01-20T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:05:48","slug":"acep-fires-back-at-anthem-for-its-discretionary-ed-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9315","title":{"rendered":"ACEP fires back at Anthem for its discretionary ED policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The American College of Emergency Physicians\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/emergency-physicians-expose-anthems-harmful-emergency-care-policy-with-new-video-300584000.html\">criticized<\/a>\u00a0Anthem&#8217;s recent moves to incentivize patients with nonemergent symptoms to seek care outside of the emergency department. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/acep-fires-back-at-anthem-for-its-discretionary-ed-policy.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8944\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file0001786007208-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The American College of Emergency Physicians\u00a0criticized\u00a0Anthem&#8217;s recent moves to incentivize patients with nonemergent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315","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=9315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions\/9316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}