{"id":8772,"date":"2017-11-29T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2017-11-29T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:04:24","slug":"a-hospital-charged-1877-to-pierce-a-5-year-olds-ears-this-is-why-health-care-costs-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8772","title":{"rendered":"A Hospital Charged $1,877 to Pierce a 5-Year-Old\u2019s Ears. This Is Why Health Care Costs So Much."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Marshall Allen for ProPublica)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Tiempos Text', serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Two years ago, Margaret O\u2019Neill brought her 5-year-old daughter to Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado because the band of tissue that connected her tongue to the floor of her mouth was too tight. The condition, literally called being \u201ctongue-tied,\u201d made it hard for the girl to make \u201cth\u201d\u00a0sounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/a-hospital-charged-to-pierce-ears-why-health-care-costs-so-much?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=58893075&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_p6kbvJwTkxK1Aqh_SBfAEbtk7VqT6U7LBAMftpKJ8I9WHtBLcokxbisro8iZV_mGysunHRfP4N8DKeFAaknAD9e-c-A&amp;_hsmi=58893075\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6975\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo-300x58.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo.png 656w\" 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 Marshall Allen for ProPublica) Two years ago, Margaret O\u2019Neill brought her 5-year-old daughter to Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado because the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8772","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\/8772","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=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}