{"id":6457,"date":"2026-10-30T11:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/gateway-regional-faces-121m-debt-medicare-deadline\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:03:30","slug":"gateway-regional-faces-121m-debt-medicare-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/gateway-regional-faces-121m-debt-medicare-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway Regional Faces $121M Debt, Medicare Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Gateway Regional Medical Center and a sister hospital owe Illinois approximately $121 million in provider assessments and penalties as federal regulators consider terminating Gateway\u2019s Medicare agreement on November 17. GRANITE CITY, IL \u2013 October 30, 2026 (STL.News) Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City, Illinois, faces mounting financial and regulatory pressure as newly reported state documents show the hospital and a sister facility owe Illinois about $121 million in unpaid provider assessments and penalties. The findings come from an October 29 investigation by First Alert 4 (KMOV), which obtained documents showing about $47 million in obligations tied to Gateway<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/gateway-regional-faces-121m-debt-medicare-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gateway Regional Medical Center and a sister hospital owe Illinois approximately $121 million in provider assessments and penalties as federal regulators consider terminating Gateway\u2019s Medicare agreement on November 17. GRANITE CITY, IL \u2013 October 30, 2026 (STL.News) Gateway Regional Medical&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6459,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/6459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}