{"id":13934,"date":"2026-06-15T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13934"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:38:45","slug":"multicare-cfo-decades-of-cms-underpayment-is-creating-an-unfair-two-tiered-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13934","title":{"rendered":"Multicare CFO: Decades of CMS Underpayment is Creating an Unfair Two-Tiered System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/multicare-cfo-decades-of-cms-underpayment-is-creating-an-unfair-two-tiered-system\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MultiCare CFO James Lee said decades of government underpayment have pushed U.S. healthcare to a breaking point. He thinks the nation is headed toward a two-tier system \u2014 one for patients with commercial coverage, and another for those covered through CMS.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/multicare-cfo-decades-of-cms-underpayment-is-creating-an-unfair-two-tiered-system\/\">Multicare CFO: Decades of CMS Underpayment is Creating an Unfair Two-Tiered System<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiCare CFO James Lee said decades of government underpayment have pushed U.S. healthcare to a breaking point. He thinks the nation is headed toward a two-tier system \u2014 one for patients with commercial coverage, and another for those covered through CMS. The post Multicare CFO: Decades of CMS Underpayment is Creating an Unfair Two-Tiered System&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13934","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\/13934"}],"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=13934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}