{"id":8379,"date":"2017-10-25T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T18:27:06","slug":"analysis-how-to-significantly-reduce-avoidable-expenditures-in-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8379","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: How to significantly reduce avoidable expenditures in Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Rappleye for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nearly three-quarters of preventable Medicare spending in 2012 can be attributed to high-cost patients, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/in-the-literature\/2017\/oct\/preventable-spending-high-cost-medicare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a>\u00a0supported by the Commonwealth Fund. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/analysis-how-to-significantly-reduce-avoidable-expenditures-in-medicare.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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 Emily Rappleye for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Nearly three-quarters of preventable Medicare spending in 2012 can be attributed to high-cost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379","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=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8380,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}