{"id":10429,"date":"2018-05-16T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T12:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10429"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T12:50:32","slug":"california-hospital-giant-sutter-health-faces-heavy-backlash-on-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10429","title":{"rendered":"California Hospital Giant Sutter Health Faces Heavy Backlash On Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chad Terhune for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Cooking dinner one night in March, Mark Frizzell sliced his pinkie finger while peeling a butternut squash and couldn\u2019t stop the bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old businessman headed to the emergency room at Sutter Health\u2019s California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Sutter charged $1,555 for the 10 minutes it treated him, including $55 for a gel bandage and $487 for a tetanus shot. <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/california-hospital-giant-sutter-health-faces-heavy-backlash-on-prices\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=62951174&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8w7MR_nYUXD82mf8kzJZM5t62hJrI8zBHdboTiz8ZPZ-lXBjYgXbraiMzzjXUuADDo4OVZLpOtuiJEKzHNrJgdK_PnBA&amp;_hsmi=62951174\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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