{"id":26231,"date":"2019-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/09\/medicare-fraud-prevention-rules-to-be-revised\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T00:00:00","slug":"medicare-fraud-prevention-rules-to-be-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/09\/medicare-fraud-prevention-rules-to-be-revised\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Fraud-Prevention Rules to Be Revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Current rules make it difficult for hospitals and doctors to work together, officials say<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Oct. 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Revision of decades-old Medicare rules meant to prevent fraud has been proposed by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>The rules targeted for overhaul were meant to deter self-dealing and financial kickbacks among hospitals, clinics, and doctors but are now considered an obstacle to coordinating better patient care, according to the <i>Associated Press<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The complex requirements of the rules make it difficult for hospitals and doctors to work together, according to government officials.<\/p>\n<p>The changes to the rules could take months and will be closely monitored by the health care industry and patient advocates, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/0ed1b48a753846bba6ebdbf8a30e84a3\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current rules make it difficult for hospitals and doctors to work together, officials say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-26231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}