{"id":141,"date":"2015-08-19T13:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sopenet\/2015\/08\/19\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-kill-fee-for-service-medicine\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T13:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:51:48","slug":"why-is-it-so-hard-to-kill-fee-for-service-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-kill-fee-for-service-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is It so Hard to Kill Fee-for-Service Medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">It is hard to kill fee-for-service medicine. Most cite it as one of the root causes of the ills that plague Sick Care USA and&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/healthaffairs.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/breaking-the-fee-for-service-addiction-lets-move-to-a-comprehensive-primary-care-payment-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they want change now.<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">&nbsp;The Obama administration is treading lightly taking an incremental approach.<\/span><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">Why is it so hard to kill FFS payment?<\/span><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">&#8211; See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcplive.com\/contributor\/arlen-meyers-md-mba\/2015\/08\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-kill-fee-for-service-medicine#sthash.yvKWTF10.dpuf\">http:\/\/www.hcplive.com\/contributor\/arlen-meyers-md-mba\/2015\/08\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-kill-fee-for-service-medicine#sthash.yvKWTF10.dpuf<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to kill fee-for-service medicine. Most cite it as one of the root causes of the ills that plague Sick Care USA and&nbsp;they want change now.&nbsp;The Obama administration is treading lightly taking an incremental approach.Why is it so hard to kill FFS payment?&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.hcplive.com\/contributor\/arlen-meyers-md-mba\/2015\/08\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-kill-fee-for-service-medicine#sthash.yvKWTF10.dpuf<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}