{"id":13484,"date":"2019-06-25T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13484"},"modified":"2019-06-25T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T14:24:03","slug":"trump-administration-seeks-more-health-care-cost-details-for-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13484","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Seeks More Health Care Cost Details For Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has tried to \u201cshop\u201d for hospital services knows one thing: It\u2019s hard to get prices.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order he said would make it easier.<\/p>\n<p>The order directs agencies to draw up rules requiring hospitals and insurers to make public more information on the negotiated prices they hammer out in contract negotiations. Also, hospitals and insurers would have to give estimates to patients on out-of-pocket costs before they go in for nonemergency medical care.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/trump-administration-seeks-more-health-care-cost-details-for-consumers\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=74013526&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9YB-UwHDLerL7vqf72iNPcSCUp07T8cwCtowE1Z2iRZbaOdoHAxSdYWPS9M8BM6mB_jyqH6ZTM8HO8SlCg8lQkmRT0YQ&amp;_hsmi=74013526\">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 Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) Anyone who has tried to \u201cshop\u201d for hospital services knows one thing: It\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484","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=13484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13485,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484\/revisions\/13485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}