{"id":17869,"date":"2021-03-22T11:58:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17869"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:58:49","slug":"how-hospitals-hide-pricing-data-from-web-search-results-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17869","title":{"rendered":"How hospitals hide pricing data from web search results: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jackie Drees for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>HCA Healthcare and Universal Health Services are among hundreds of hospitals that have embedded special coding within their websites to block previously confidential pricing information from appearing in web searches, according to a March 22 Wall Street Journal report. Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/consumerism\/how-hospitals-hide-pricing-data-from-web-search-results-wsj.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7810\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/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>(By Jackie Drees for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) HCA Healthcare and Universal Health Services are among hundreds of hospitals that have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-price-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869","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=17869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17870,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions\/17870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}