{"id":7825,"date":"2023-12-18T07:01:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=7825"},"modified":"2023-12-18T07:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T15:01:44","slug":"new-round-of-taking-on-goliath-by-protesting-a-medicare-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/12\/18\/new-round-of-taking-on-goliath-by-protesting-a-medicare-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"New round of taking on Goliath by protesting a Medicare denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7825\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>A Washington day of advocacy to call for restored coverage of special blood test<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Samuel Kirton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been involved in equity issues for most of my adult life and have been an advocate for the rare disease community for decades. In the biblical story of David and Goliath in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Samuel%2017&amp;version=NIV\">1 Samuel 17<\/a>, David had no intention of shying away from Goliath. Neither do I.<br><br>Goliath fooled me once this year, but he wouldn\u2019t this time. <a href=\"https:\/\/pulmonaryfibrosisnews.com\/columns\/new-round-taking-goliath-protesting-medicare-denial\/\">Read the article<\/a> in Pulmonary Fibrosis News.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7825\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading A Washington day of advocacy to call for restored coverage of special blood test By Samuel Kirton I\u2019ve been involved in equity issues for most of my adult life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/12\/18\/new-round-of-taking-on-goliath-by-protesting-a-medicare-denial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New round of taking on Goliath by protesting a Medicare denial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":6305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"1","views":"1132","post_likes_plusCounter":"","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7826,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions\/7826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}