{"id":10313,"date":"2018-05-04T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10313"},"modified":"2018-05-03T15:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T19:07:59","slug":"new-jersey-hospital-bills-patient-5751-for-ice-pack-and-bandage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10313","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey hospital bills patient $5,751 for ice pack and bandage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Pell went to the emergency room at Hoboken (N.J.) University Medical Center in October 2016 after she fainted and hit her head on a table, cutting her ear. She received an ice pack and a bandage in the ER, for which the hospital billed her $5,751, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/5\/1\/17261488\/er-expensive-medical-bill\"><em>Vox<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/new-jersey-hospital-bills-patient-5-751-for-ice-pack-and-bandage.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7802\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Jessica Pell went to the emergency room at Hoboken (N.J.) University Medical Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10314,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}