{"id":3190,"date":"2016-06-13T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2016-06-13T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:22:01","slug":"as-hospital-chains-grow-so-do-their-prices-for-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"As Hospital Chains Grow, So Do Their Prices For Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chad Terhune for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>As health care consolidation accelerates nationwide, a <a href=\"http:\/\/inq.sagepub.com\/content\/53\/0046958016651555.full\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> shows that hospital prices in two of California\u2019s largest health systems were 25 percent higher than at other hospitals around the state.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said this gap of nearly $4,000 per patient admission was not due to regional wage differences or hospitals treating sicker patients. Rather, they said California\u2019s two biggest hospital chains, Dignity Health and Sutter Health, had used their market power to win higher rates. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/as-hospital-chains-grow-so-do-their-prices-for-care\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30516140&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9tde5cO2yn3Y2_-0jT7Jr8x_lsSCkxOsnlwvWpAEu1r8eCMx8jm3Z9P52eEyUnMEgHKf2Llwlx-KBRi11Q4S6iwYFVNA&amp;_hsmi=30516140\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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