{"id":17737,"date":"2021-02-25T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17737"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:48:45","slug":"hospital-stays-getting-more-expensive-for-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17737","title":{"rendered":"Hospital stays getting more expensive for Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Inspector General (OIG), it found hospitals increased their Medicare billing for the most severe inpatient stays. The agency is concerned that facilities could be improperly charging the federal government. The report said, \u201cThe pandemic has placed unprecedented stress on the country\u2019s healthcare system, making it more important than ever to ensure that Medicare dollars are spent appropriately. Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\/hospitals\/watchdog-medicare-claims-for-most-severe-inpatient-hospital-stays-increased-over-six\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9962\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General-300x74.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General-300x74.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>According to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Inspector General (OIG), it found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dhs-oig","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17737","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=17737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17738,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17737\/revisions\/17738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}