{"id":4346,"date":"2018-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/25\/medicare-requiring-hospitals-to-post-prices-online\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:09:17","slug":"medicare-requiring-hospitals-to-post-prices-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/25\/medicare-requiring-hospitals-to-post-prices-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Requiring Hospitals to Post Prices Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Medicare would base part of a hospital&#8217;s payments on how easy it is for patients to access medical records<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, April 25, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; U.S. hospitals will have to post their standard prices online and make it easier for patients to access their electronic medical records, Medicare officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, hospitals must make their prices public, but the new rule requires the information to be posted online in a format that can be easily processed by computers, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, hospitals&#8217; standard prices aren&#8217;t what insurers and government programs pay, so it&#8217;s unclear how useful consumers will find the online pricing information.<\/p>\n<p>Many health care providers already give patients access to their electronic medical records, but hospitals&#8217; Medicare payments will be partly based on how easy they make it for patients to get those records. That requirement begins in 2021, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Newsroom\/MediaReleaseDatabase\/Press-releases\/2018-Press-releases-items\/2018-04-24.html\" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare would base part of a hospital&#8217;s payments on how easy it is for patients to access medical records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}