{"id":521,"date":"2015-08-15T00:44:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T04:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=521"},"modified":"2015-08-14T13:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:45:58","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-medicare-charges-for-cervical-spine-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"5 things to know about Medicare charges for cervical spine surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Laura Dyrda,\u00a0www.beckersspine.com)<\/p>\n<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p>A new study published in <em>Spine<\/em> examines how hospital characteristics impact Medicare charges and payments for cervical spine surgery.\u00a0The researchers identified hospital characteristics and patient population characteristics with excess charges and examined the cost-to-charge ratio for Medicare patients undergoing cervical spinal fusion. The researchers found: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckersspine.com\/spine\/item\/26771-5-things-to-know-about-medicare-charges-for-cervical-spine-surgery.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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 &#8211;\u00a0Laura Dyrda,\u00a0www.beckersspine.com) A new study published in Spine examines how hospital characteristics impact Medicare charges and payments for cervical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}