{"id":73640,"date":"2026-05-17T06:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/how-us-hemp-ban-could-criminalize-cbd-products-and-derail-medicare-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:55:14","slug":"how-us-hemp-ban-could-criminalize-cbd-products-and-derail-medicare-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/how-us-hemp-ban-could-criminalize-cbd-products-and-derail-medicare-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"How US hemp ban could criminalize CBD products \u2013 and derail Medicare plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot program to reimburse patients for hemp-derived products could be undermined by ban passed by Congress<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently started a new pilot to reimburse patients for hemp-derived products \u2013 like CBD \u2013 but a hemp ban that Congress passed in November could derail the program.<\/p>\n<p>The new program will make certain Medicare and Medicaid recipients eligible for reimbursement for up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/priorities\/innovation\/substance-access-beneficiary-engagement-incentive\">$500 worth of hemp products each year<\/a> and is intended in part to evaluate whether these products could reduce their other health related costs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/17\/hemp-ban-medicare-medicaid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot program to reimburse patients for hemp-derived products could be undermined by ban passed by Congress The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently started a new pilot to reimburse patients for hemp-derived products \u2013 like CBD \u2013 but a hemp ban that Congress passed in November could derail the program. The new program will &#8230; <a title=\"How US hemp ban could criminalize CBD products \u2013 and derail Medicare plan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/how-us-hemp-ban-could-criminalize-cbd-products-and-derail-medicare-plan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How US hemp ban could criminalize CBD products \u2013 and derail Medicare plan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}