{"id":11849,"date":"2018-10-29T07:59:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11849"},"modified":"2018-10-29T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:13:09","slug":"thats-a-lot-of-scratch-the-48329-allergy-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11849","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s A Lot Of Scratch: The $48,329 Allergy Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Barbara Feder Ostrov for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Janet Winston had a rash that wouldn\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n<p>The English professor from Eureka, Calif., always had been sensitive to ingredients in skin creams and cosmetics. This time, however, the antifungal cream she was prescribed to treat her persistent rash seemed to make things worse. Was she allergic to that, too? <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/thats-a-lot-of-scratch-the-48329-allergy-test\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=67041069&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9BTob6wsY-z5eUEMr8eJYrE_mkS430A3_9jlL0zk11RS8h8lpzGFlZ1h34WTdF_6Jk_u27ioldz1t4YU6nM39uBql0uw&amp;_hsmi=67041069\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This story was produced by<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Kaiser Health News<\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, which publishes<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiahealthline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>California Healthline<\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, a service of the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chcf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>California Health Care Foundation<\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/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;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/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;\">\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 Barbara Feder Ostrov for Kaiser Health News) Janet Winston had a rash that wouldn\u2019t go away. The English professor<\/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-11849","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\/11849","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=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11852,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions\/11852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}