{"id":7419,"date":"2017-07-12T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T17:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2017-07-12T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T17:39:53","slug":"bcbs-of-louisiana-launches-price-comparison-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7419","title":{"rendered":"BCBS of Louisiana launches price comparison tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Spitzer for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcbs.com\/news\/press-releases\/blue-cross-launches-smartshopper-let-customers-shop-online-compare-prices\">launched<\/a>\u00a0a tool that allows customers to compare costs of medical procedures in more than 300 categories.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/bcbs-of-louisiana-launches-price-comparison-tool.html\"> 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>(By Julie Spitzer for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana\u00a0launched\u00a0a tool that allows customers to compare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419","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=7419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7420,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions\/7420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}