{"id":1505,"date":"2013-05-09T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:09:04","slug":"hospital-billing-varies-wildly-government-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Billing Varies Wildly, Government Data Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u00a0 |\u00a0 By BARRY MEIER, JO CRAVEN McGINTY and JULIE CRESWELL\u00a0 |\u00a0 May 8, 2013 A hospital in Livingston, N.J., charged $70,712 on average to implant a pacemaker, while a hospital in nearby Rahway, N.J., charged $101,945.\u00a0 The government has released data on bills submitted from virtually every hospital in the country in 2011 for the 100 most common treatments and procedures performed in hospitals. Above, a hip replacement surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011. In Saint Augustine, Fla., one hospital typically billed nearly $40,000 to remove a gallbladder using minimally invasive surgery, while one in Orange Park, Fla., charged $91,000.\u00a0 In one hospital in Dallas, the average bill for treating simple pneumonia was $14,610, while another there charged over $38,000.\u00a0 Data being released for the first time by the government on Wednesday shows that hospitals charge Medicare wildly differing amounts \u2014 sometimes 10 to 20 times what Medicare typically reimburses \u2014 for the same procedure, raising questions about how hospitals determine prices and why they differ so widely.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/08\/business\/hospital-billing-varies-wildly-us-data-shows.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u00a0 |\u00a0 By BARRY MEIER, JO CRAVEN McGINTY and JULIE CRESWELL\u00a0 |\u00a0 May 8, 2013 A hospital in Livingston, N.J., charged $70,712 on average to implant a <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1505\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[132,596,207,131],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services","tag-hospital-billing","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}