{"id":45477,"date":"2014-08-05T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_hospitals_cash_in_on_the_newly_insured\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:00:40","slug":"wsj_hospitals_cash_in_on_the_newly_insured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45477","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Hospitals Cash In on the Newly Insured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rush of newly insured patients using health services has boosted hospital operators&#8217; fortunes but has racked up costs that insurers didn&#8217;t anticipate, corporate filings and interviews with executives show.<\/p>\n<p>People are getting more back surgeries, seeking maternity care and showing up at emergency rooms more frequently, executives say, boosting income for hospital operators.<\/p>\n<p>At Tenet Healthcare Corp&#8230;.patient volumes rose 4% in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, while uninsured inpatient admissions slid 22%&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/hospitals-cash-in-on-the-newly-insured-1407196639\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rush of newly insured patients using health services has boosted hospital operators&#8217; fortunes but has racked up costs that insurers didn&#8217;t anticipate, corporate filings and interviews with executives show. People are getting more back surgeries, seeking maternity care and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45477\">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":[39,40,50,513,209,175,582,589,149,168,104,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45477","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=45477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}