{"id":1935,"date":"2016-02-10T07:55:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2016-02-10T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T15:01:27","slug":"study-compares-rural-and-urban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"Study Compares Rural and Urban Hospital Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211;\u00a0www.beckershospitalreview.com)<\/p>\n<p>A new study by iVantage Health Analytics contrasts\u00a0the list prices of hospital care at rural acute care hospitals with those of urban hospitals, wit a conclusion that costs at rural facilities tend to be higher than urban counterparts. Read an account by Ayla Ellison\u00a0of the study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/rural-vs-urban-a-comparison-of-hospital-costs-and-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8230;\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0The article also includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/333498\/2016_INDEX_Rural_Relevance\/INDEX_2016_Rural_Relevance_Study_FINAL_Formatted_02_01_16.pdf?__hssc=31316192.1.1454512688939&amp;__hstc=31316192.9534813cb4302d98eb49a0000ee85436.1454512688939.1454512688939.1454512688939.1&amp;__hsfp=&amp;hsCtaTracking=518d16d3-8af6-40cb-85a9-6802175ad7d0%7C38fb6460-e237-4dbd-b7e6-94ec137b5f45\" target=\"_blank\">link to the iVantage study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211;\u00a0www.beckershospitalreview.com) A new study by iVantage Health Analytics contrasts\u00a0the list prices of hospital care at rural acute care hospitals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountable-care-organizations-aco","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}