{"id":5201,"date":"2016-12-03T05:49:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T10:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2016-12-02T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:52:43","slug":"massachusetts-pricing-committee-says-patients-need-protection-from-excessive-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5201","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts pricing committee says patients need protection from excessive bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bye Kelly Gooch for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The committee of hospital leaders, healthcare policy experts and government officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/23-massachusetts-hospital-ceos-public-officials-named-to-state-commission-to-study-healthcare-price-variation.html\" target=\"_blank\">assembled<\/a> to address Massachusetts&#8217; pricing disparity have taken up the topic of exorbitant bills for out-of-network healthcare, according to a <em>State House News Service <\/em>report published by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/news\/ci_30621325\/officials-urge-patients-need-protection-from-exorbitant-bills\">The Lowell Sun<\/a><\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/massachusetts-pricing-committee-says-patients-need-protection-from-excessive-bills.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/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>(Bye Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The committee of hospital leaders, healthcare policy experts and government officials assembled to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","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=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}