{"id":19012,"date":"2021-10-26T07:43:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T11:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19012"},"modified":"2021-10-26T07:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T11:43:52","slug":"analysis-a-procedure-that-cost-1775-in-new-york-was-350-in-maryland-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19012","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: A Procedure That Cost $1,775 in New York Was $350 in Maryland. Here\u2019s Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>For the past 18 months, while I was undergoing intensive physical therapy and many neurological tests after a complicated head injury, my friends would point to a silver lining: \u201cNow you\u2019ll be able to write about your own bills.\u201d After all, I\u2019d spent the past decade as a journalist covering the often-bankrupting cost of U.S. medical care.<\/p>\n<p>But my bills were, in fact, mostly totally reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s largely because I live in Washington, D.C., and received the majority of my care in next-door Maryland,\u00a0the one state\u00a0in the nation that controls what hospitals can charge for services and has a cap on spending growth.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/analysis-a-procedure-that-cost-1775-in-new-york-was-350-in-maryland-heres-why\/\">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><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 Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News) For the past 18 months, while I was undergoing intensive physical therapy and<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19012","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=19012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19013,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19012\/revisions\/19013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}