{"id":7585,"date":"2017-07-28T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2017-07-27T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:33:15","slug":"246-billion-in-shoppable-services-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7585","title":{"rendered":"246 Billion in Shoppable Services Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Health Care Cost Institute found that 47 percent of the $524.2 billion spent on health care by individuals with employer-sponsored insurance was shoppable. In other words $246 billion dollars of shoppable services, which are common health care procedures that can be researched in advance, was spent last year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2017\/07\/26\/your-workforce-has-the-power-to-reduce-health-care?kw=Your+workforce+has+the+power+to+reduce+health+care+costs&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20170727&amp;src=EMC-Email_editorial&amp;pt=Consumer+Driven+PRO&amp;t=cost-containment\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Care Cost Institute found that 47 percent of the $524.2 billion spent on health care by individuals with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585","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=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7586,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions\/7586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}