{"id":9601,"date":"2018-02-18T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9601"},"modified":"2018-02-16T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:21:57","slug":"bipartisan-budget-act-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9601","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (the \u201cBudget\u201d), a two-year budget which made substantial revisions to Medicare, including the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. The budget aims to increase federal funding for healthcare services for low-income individuals, and provide greater access to healthcare services for chronically ill patients. The attached goes into further details on the budget revisions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/bipartisan-budget-act-boosts-medicare-flexibility-and-financing-healthcare-plans-and\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Whitehouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2587\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Whitehouse-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Whitehouse-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Whitehouse.jpg 640w\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (the \u201cBudget\u201d), a two-year budget which made substantial revisions to Medicare,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,16,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601","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=9601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9602,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions\/9602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}