{"id":10976,"date":"2018-07-19T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T16:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10976"},"modified":"2018-07-19T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T16:40:57","slug":"medicares-bundled-payment-system-did-not-reduce-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10976","title":{"rendered":"Medicare&#8217;s bundled-payment system did not reduce costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">In a new study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found Medicare\u2019s bundled-payment system did not lower costs as intended. Medicare\u2019s bundled-payment system, in which hospitals are assigned a target cost for Medicare patients with a given condition, with the goal to keep costs below that target for a patient\u2019s hospitalization plus any care given within 90 days of discharge. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/view\/697426\/?sc=dwhn\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7924\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" 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>In a new study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found Medicare\u2019s bundled-payment system did not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976","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=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10977,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions\/10977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}