{"id":7308,"date":"2017-07-04T08:03:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T12:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7308"},"modified":"2017-07-04T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T12:03:33","slug":"states-with-no-fee-schedules-see-higher-hospital-outpatient-payments-per-episode-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7308","title":{"rendered":"States with no fee schedules see higher hospital outpatient payments per episode, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals in states with percent-of-charge-based fee regulations or no fee schedules saw higher and faster growing outpatient payments than states with fixed-amount fee schedules in 2015, an annual study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2017\/06\/prweb14471425.htm\">found<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/states-with-no-fee-schedules-see-higher-hospital-outpatient-payments-per-episode-study-finds.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><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; 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Hospitals in states with percent-of-charge-based fee regulations or no fee schedules saw higher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7309,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308\/revisions\/7309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}