{"id":821,"date":"2005-04-26T22:27:50","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T22:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=821"},"modified":"2005-04-26T22:27:50","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T22:27:50","slug":"long-distance_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Long-Distance Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

One little-noticed provision of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act<\/a> is one that will severely limit the right of Medicare beneficiaries to receive in-person hearings in front of an administrative judge. These hearings usually occur when there’s a dispute about whether Medicare will pay for a certain service. In the past, beneficiaries would usually present their case to a judge in person. Now, hearings will be presented via videoconference. This has a lot of disability advocates concerned, and rightly so. It’s a lot more difficult to give a judge a complete picture of a person’s health when you’re communicating through a television screen. Sure, you can submit a whole forest’s worth of medical records, but that’s not the same thing as letting a judge see a person’s severe arthritis or labored breathing. One quirk of human nature is that we usually react most strongly to the things we can see ourselves. A stack of medical records doesn’t measure up to seeing someone sitting in front of you. But these are tight budget times and certain sacrifices must be made, I suppose. Let’s just hope that the video screens are high-definition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One little-noticed provision of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act is one that will severely limit the right of Medicare beneficiaries to receive in-person hearings in front of an administrative judge. These hearings usually occur when there’s a dispute about whether Medicare will pay for a certain service. In the past, beneficiaries would usually present their […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-df","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}