{"id":33816,"date":"2020-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/23\/white-house-announces-payment-plan-for-uninsured-covid-19-patients\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T16:10:05","slug":"white-house-announces-payment-plan-for-uninsured-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/23\/white-house-announces-payment-plan-for-uninsured-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Announces Payment Plan for Uninsured COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Doctors can submit bills for these patients directly to the government and be paid at Medicare rates<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, April 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A plan to begin paying hospitals and doctors who treat uninsured COVID-19 patients was announced by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Azar said hospitals and doctors would submit their bills for these patients directly to the government and be paid at Medicare rates, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Azar did not say what the plan will cost but is confident it will fit within the $100 billion approved by Congress to provide relief for the nation&#8217;s health care system during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A recent estimate by the Kaiser Family Foundation said the cost of treating uninsured COVID-19 patients would be between $14 billion and $48 billion, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/2e42dbf0e5b52b144873417553a3c66b\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors can submit bills for these patients directly to the government and be paid at Medicare rates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-33816","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\/33816","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=33816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}