{"id":581,"date":"2015-05-04T14:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homehealthstlouis.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:32:52","slug":"congress-passes-bill-to-save-medicare-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/congress-passes-bill-to-save-medicare-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Passes Bill To Save Medicare Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=4172381737001&amp;w=466&amp;h=263\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><br \/>\nIn a last-minute effort to save doctors from getting a 21-percent pay cut in Medicare fees, congress overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday to protect\u00a0how physicians get paid.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was a near unanimous approval in both the house and the senate, and is not awaiting the president&#8217;s approval.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also provides billions of extra dollars for health care programs for children and low-income families, including additional money for community health centers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/04\/15\/senate-approves-bill-changing-how-medicare-pays-doctors\/\">Read more\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com In a last-minute effort to save doctors from getting a 21-percent pay cut in Medicare fees, congress overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday to protect\u00a0how physicians get paid. The bill was a near unanimous approval in both the house and the senate, and is not awaiting the president&#8217;s approval. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algonquinnursesstl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}