{"id":12416,"date":"2019-01-15T00:21:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T05:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12416"},"modified":"2019-01-14T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T14:22:28","slug":"transparency-in-healthcare-posting-of-procedure-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12416","title":{"rendered":"Transparency in Healthcare&#8230;Posting of Procedure Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article posted on\u00a0www.oanow.com by reporter\u00a0Timothy Noordermeer, the recent\u00a0federal law enacted requiring hospitals to publicly display a list of procedural prices is discussed. Noordermeer&#8217;s article explains the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) logic associated with pricing transparency, and references CMS&#8217; plans to provide a &#8220;Procedure Price Lookup&#8221; tool for the public to use in shopping for medical services. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oanow.com\/news\/local\/by-federal-law-hospitals-post-procedure-prices\/article_c77684be-16b9-11e9-a560-a7b8b33285d0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read his article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: Any\u00a0links\u00a0provided in this post above connect\u00a0readers to the full content of the referenced article. The URL (internet address) for these\u00a0links are valid\u00a0on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the links' 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>In an article posted on\u00a0www.oanow.com by reporter\u00a0Timothy Noordermeer, the recent\u00a0federal law enacted requiring hospitals to publicly display a list of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12417,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions\/12417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}