{"id":8585,"date":"2021-01-18T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:42:40","slug":"healthcare-price-transparency-a-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8585","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Price Transparency; a beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(2, 54, 61); color: rgb(2, 54, 61); font-family\" hk grotesk regular font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>Starting this year, all hospitals are required to list their prices for<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(2, 54, 61); color: rgb(2, 54, 61); font-family\" hk grotesk regular font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:> elective services. Whether you have insurance or plan to pay cash &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(2, 54, 61); color: rgb(2, 54, 61); font-family\" hk grotesk regular font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:> <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(2, 54, 61); color: rgb(2, 54, 61); font-family\" hk grotesk regular font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/turquoise.health\/\">find and compare prices below<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(2, 54, 61); color: rgb(2, 54, 61); font-family\" hk grotesk regular font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/lifestyles\/health\/hospitals-must-make-prices-public-starting-jan\/W4pjlYm3vtuKoiNVDnr3qJ\/\">Search for pacemaker <\/a>and several options come up, with prices that vary by thousands of bucks. There are more than a thousand charges for different types of screws used in surgeries, some costing hundreds of dollars, others in the thousands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Even finding out the charge for a Tylenol isn\u2019t as easy as it might seem. Piedmont\u2019s chargemaster for its Atlanta hospital has all sorts of variations of \u201cacetaminophen.\u201d Some are pills that also include hyrocodone, some have codeine, and the strengths vary along with the list prices that run from about $30 to over $500.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Medicare\/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment\/AcuteInpatientPPS\/Downloads\/FAQs-Req-Hospital-Public-List-Standard-Charges.pdf\">federal rule<\/a> requiring hospital price publication.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(2, 54, 61); color: rgb(2, 54, 61); font-family\" hk grotesk regular font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>Federal <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(2, 54, 61); color: rgb(2, 54, 61); font-family\" hk grotesk regular font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7464\">taxpayers spent $38B+ in back door electronic medical record subsidies from 2009 &#8211; 2018 (!)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this year, all hospitals are required to list their prices for elective services. Whether you have insurance or plan to pay cash &#8211; find and compare prices below. Search for pacemaker and several options come up, with prices that vary by thousands of bucks. There are more than a thousand charges for different types [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8587,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions\/8587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}