{"id":10610,"date":"2018-06-09T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10610"},"modified":"2018-06-05T10:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:04:23","slug":"every-state-needs-a-database-with-all-health-insurance-claims-not-just-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10610","title":{"rendered":"Every state needs a database with all health insurance claims, not just some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By John Freedman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">California spends approximately\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthpolicy.ucla.edu\/publications\/Documents\/PDF\/2016\/PublicSharePB_FINAL_8-31-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$367 billion a year<\/a>\u00a0on health care. That\u2019s more than the gross domestic product of South Africa or Denmark. It\u2019s more than the state spends on six years of K-12 education, or 23 years of transportation. In other words, it\u2019s a lot. Many say it\u2019s too much.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/06\/05\/every-state-needs-database-all-health-insurance-claims\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_uecxk9Z27xtVWobWILUx_OjQSHUipzsuknpzn_DDUo_JJApr7f0m1XD2u8jXD3mLVwmYwV5I9mu52DwgPDjW8HPTDTw&amp;_hsmi=63503540\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By John Freedman for STAT) California spends approximately\u00a0$367 billion a year\u00a0on health care. That\u2019s more than the gross domestic product<\/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-10610","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\/10610","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=10610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10611,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions\/10611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}