{"id":38225,"date":"2013-05-09T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_federal_report_shows_lowcountry_s-c-_hospitals_bill_very_different_pric\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T17:00:34","slug":"new_federal_report_shows_lowcountry_s-c-_hospitals_bill_very_different_pric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38225","title":{"rendered":"New federal report shows Lowcountry S.C. hospitals bill very different prices for same services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals around the Lowcountry are billing Medicare at vastly different prices for the exact same procedures, according to data published Wednesday by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in 2011, Trident Medical Center billed Medicare an average $98,352 to insert a permanent pacemaker, while the Medical University of South Carolina billed $38,902 for the same surgery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20130509\/PC16\/130509246\/1165\/new-federal-report-shows-lowcountry-hospitals-bill-very-different-prices-for-same-services\">Read it all from the local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals around the Lowcountry are billing Medicare at vastly different prices for the exact same procedures, according to data published Wednesday by the federal government. For example, in 2011, Trident Medical Center billed Medicare an average $98,352 to insert a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38225\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,582,589,149,104,675,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-medicare","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}