{"id":14341,"date":"2019-10-24T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14341"},"modified":"2019-10-24T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:29:07","slug":"14341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14341","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals don&#8217;t like having to post their high chargemaster rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has required hospitals to publicly disclose their prices also known as \u201cchargemasters.\u201d Although hospitals chargemaster lists the rack price of every service, test and procedure; those prices are only relevant for people who are uninsured and for people who get out-of-network services, but they don\u2019t reflect the net price that\u2019s negotiated with private health insurers. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/hospitals-lobbying-medicare-chargemaster-67730932-b72f-4bcc-bcc6-d178e9a1afe4.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7924\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>The Trump administration has required hospitals to publicly disclose their prices also known as \u201cchargemasters.\u201d Although hospitals chargemaster lists the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,21,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-price-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341","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=14341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14345,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions\/14345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}