{"id":1950,"date":"2017-04-04T21:42:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2017-04-04T21:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:42:25","slug":"markups-on-care-can-fatten-hospital-budgets-even-if-few-patients-foot-the-full-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Markups On Care Can Fatten Hospital Budgets \u2014 Even If Few Patients Foot The Full Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KHN Kaiser Health News\u00a0 |\u00a0 <span class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/author\/chad-terhune\/\"><strong>Chad Terhune<\/strong><\/a><\/span> <time datetime=\"2017-04-03T17:15:54-04:00\">April 3, 2017<\/time><\/p>\n<p>Few patients pay a hospital\u2019s full price for a procedure or test. But a new study shows why those charges still matter.<\/p>\n<p>Economists at the Federal Reserve Board and the American Enterprise Institute found that list prices, often dismissed as meaningless by the hospital industry, are a critical gauge of which hospitals ultimately receive higher payments.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/markups-on-care-can-fatten-hospital-budgets-even-if-few-patients-foot-the-full-bill\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=49878755&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-98qauVzYNNkKEt2dg0i_2iP4__pO4u8mUefC448A9y00A4fzuk95WePBREFebiFA7fAScMFg_SGshu4QTbwtm0i-lVXA&amp;_hsmi=49878755\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHN Kaiser Health News\u00a0 |\u00a0 By Chad Terhune April 3, 2017 Few patients pay a hospital\u2019s full price for a procedure or test. But a new study shows why those <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1950\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[734,596,131,735],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-cost-and-quality","tag-hospital-billing","tag-medicare","tag-uninsured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","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=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}