{"id":6366,"date":"2017-04-04T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T12:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2017-04-04T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T12:35:12","slug":"markups-on-care-can-fatten-hospital-budgets-even-if-few-patients-foot-the-full-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6366","title":{"rendered":"Markups On Care Can Fatten Hospital Budgets \u2014 Even If Few Patients Foot The Full Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chad Terhune for California Healthline)<\/p>\n<p>Few patients pay a hospital\u2019s full price for a procedure or test. But a new study shows why those charges still matter. <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/markups-on-care-can-fatten-hospital-budgets-even-if-few-patients-foot-the-full-bill\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=49863616&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_JNJJCKwcyWlw1lxddLq3lfcMAfxH4GVz5IMZEoW5JrOQbKSP9pB-DVYF2aH8fX50q5nKB83U_TI_8cpYXY2IzmXaXeg&amp;_hsmi=49863616\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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