{"id":12498,"date":"2026-04-05T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12498"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:50:00","slug":"join-the-fight-against-chronic-pain-its-time-for-breakthrough-legislation-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12498","title":{"rendered":"Join the Fight Against Chronic Pain: It\u2019s Time for Breakthrough Legislation in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/join-the-fight-against-chronic-pain-its-time-for-breakthrough-legislation-in-congress\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past 15 years, financial and administrative barriers \u2013 most notably step therapy mandates and prior authorization requirements \u2013 have repeatedly forced patients through suboptimal or ineffective treatments before they can try another therapy, have tied the hands of healthcare professionals and patients alike. Now there\u2019s a possible solution. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/join-the-fight-against-chronic-pain-its-time-for-breakthrough-legislation-in-congress\/\">Join the Fight Against Chronic Pain: It\u2019s Time for Breakthrough Legislation in Congress<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 15 years, financial and administrative barriers \u2013 most notably step therapy mandates and prior authorization requirements \u2013 have repeatedly forced patients through suboptimal or ineffective treatments before they can try another therapy, have tied the hands of healthcare professionals and patients alike. Now there\u2019s a possible solution. The post Join the Fight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}