{"id":13456,"date":"2019-06-20T08:53:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13456"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:53:11","slug":"stem-cell-company-persuades-employers-to-steer-workers-toward-controversial-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13456","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cell Company Persuades Employers To Steer Workers Toward Controversial Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>A Midwestern grocery chain, Hy-Vee, is taking an unusual \u2014 and highly controversial \u2014 approach to reducing health care costs.<\/p>\n<p>Before employees in certain cities can undergo knee replacement, they first must visit a stem cell provider. Hy-Vee has contracted with one of the United States\u2019 leading stem cell companies \u2014 Regenexx, based in Des Moines, Iowa \u2014 that claims injections of concentrated bone marrow or platelets can help patients avoid expensive joint surgery.\u00a0 Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/stem-cell-company-persuades-employers-to-steer-workers-toward-controversial-therapy\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=73874452&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--7NkMHjkllGdhv0nL1RndlThsP2WH3DlPXqOOh87QP2c_P2YV1ks5PccFq4CeaCGFQk5E6n3gy0jCxLa3hDKezwR1lsw&amp;_hsmi=73874452\"> article here&#8230;<\/a><\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" 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.png 1600w\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News) A Midwestern grocery chain, Hy-Vee, is taking an unusual \u2014 and highly controversial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456","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=13456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13457,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions\/13457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}