{"id":47,"date":"2010-10-29T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:09:01","slug":"new-affordable-care-act-grants-to-help-put-patients-in-control-of-their-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2010\/10\/29\/new-affordable-care-act-grants-to-help-put-patients-in-control-of-their-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"New Affordable Care Act Grants to Help Put Patients in Control of Their Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2010pres\/10\/20101019a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Assistance Grants program awards<\/a> of nearly $30 million to help states and territories put patients in charge of their health care. These grants will support states&#8217; efforts to establish or strengthen consumer assistance programs that provide direct services to consumers with questions or concerns regarding their health insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced new Consumer Assistance Grants program awards of nearly $30 million to help states and territories put patients in charge of their health care. These grants will support states&#8217; efforts to establish or strengthen consumer assistance programs that provide direct services to consumers with questions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2010\/10\/29\/new-affordable-care-act-grants-to-help-put-patients-in-control-of-their-healthcare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Affordable Care Act Grants to Help Put Patients in Control of Their Healthcare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,18,20],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-reform","tag-hhs","tag-insurance","tag-reform-where-is-the-money"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}