{"id":18797,"date":"2021-09-10T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18797"},"modified":"2021-09-10T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:00:30","slug":"unitedhealth-average-of-684-saved-when-shifting-common-procedures-outside-of-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18797","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealth: Average of $684 saved when shifting common procedures outside of hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Moving routine procedures like colonoscopies and cataract removals away from a hospital outpatient department and to an ambulatory surgery center can save an average of $684 per procedure, UnitedHealth Group said in a report released Sept. 8.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/unitedhealth-average-of-684-saved-when-shifting-common-procedures-outside-of-hospital.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<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\u00a0Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Moving routine procedures like colonoscopies and cataract removals away from a hospital outpatient department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797","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=18797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18798,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions\/18798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}