{"id":22446,"date":"2024-02-13T09:38:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22446"},"modified":"2024-02-13T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:38:07","slug":"hospitals-are-fighting-a-medicare-payment-fix-that-would-save-tax-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22446","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals are fighting a Medicare payment fix that would save tax dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Phil Galewitz and Colleen DeGuzman for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the battle to control health care costs, hospitals are deploying their political power to protect their bottom lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point of contention: For decades, Medicare has paid hospitals \u2014 including hospital-owned physician practices that may not be physically located in a hospital building \u2014 about double the rates it pays other doctors and facilities for the same services, such as mammograms, colonoscopies and blood tests.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2024\/02\/13\/1230991999\/medicare-hospital-site-neutral-payment-cut\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2024\/02\/13\/1230991999\/medicare-hospital-site-neutral-payment-cut\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:&nbsp;<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz and Colleen DeGuzman for NPR) In the battle to control health care costs, hospitals are deploying their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,6],"tags":[385,238,218,61],"class_list":["post-22446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-hospitals","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446","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=22446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22447,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446\/revisions\/22447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}