{"id":12883,"date":"2019-03-20T08:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12883"},"modified":"2019-03-20T08:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:46:30","slug":"health-plans-for-state-employees-use-medicares-hammer-on-hospital-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12883","title":{"rendered":"Health Plans For State Employees Use Medicare&#8217;s Hammer On Hospital Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>States. They&#8217;re just as perplexed as the rest of us over the ever-rising cost of health care premiums.<\/p>\n<p>Now some states \u2013including Montana, North Carolina and Oregon<strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/strong>are moving to control costs of state employee health plans. Their strategy: Use Medicare reimbursement rates to recalibrate how they pay hospitals. If the gamble pays off, more private-sector employers could start doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government workers will get it first, then everyone else will see the savings and demand it,&#8221; says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/priceschool.usc.edu\/people\/glenn-melnick\/\">Glenn Melnick<\/a>, a hospital finance expert and professor at the University of Southern California. &#8220;This is the camel&#8217;s nose. It will just grow and grow.&#8221;\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/03\/20\/704640661\/health-plans-for-state-employees-use-medicares-hammer-on-hospital-bills\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States. They&#8217;re just as perplexed as the rest of us over the ever-rising cost of health care premiums. Now some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","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=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12884,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions\/12884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}