{"id":32615,"date":"2009-10-23T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"ddb0286e-44e6-44c4-957f-6067fdc77eca"},"modified":"2009-10-23T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T19:46:00","slug":"an-experiment-in-reducing-costs-improving-care-at-hillcrest-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/32615","title":{"rendered":"An Experiment In Reducing Costs, Improving Care At Hillcrest Medical Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-six year old Frank Morrow is not only having his knee replaced at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He&#8217;s also helping to test a Medicare payment system. Under the &#8220;bundled&#8221; approach, Medicare makes a single reimbursement for all the hospital and doctor care for heart and joint procedures, rather than making separate payments to the facility and physicians. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a win-win-win proposition: The hospital gets guaranteed customers, Medicare saves 4.4% on procedures and Frank Morrow gets $271 as an incentive for going to a hospital that participates in the program. <\/p>\n<p>Producer: Renato Perez<\/p>\n<p>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/October\/26\/tulsa-Medicare-hospital-bundling.aspx\"><br \/>\n        <strong>Related Article<\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/OYl6m-a-_v4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-six year old Frank Morrow is not only having his knee replaced at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He&#8217;s also helping to test a Medicare payment system. Under the &#8220;bundled&#8221; approach, Medicare makes a single reimbursement for all the hospital and doctor care for heart and joint procedures, rather than making separate payments to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}