{"id":32890,"date":"2009-10-26T10:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T14:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"114bfd1d-0502-47cd-892a-4961c3af39b4"},"modified":"2009-10-26T10:26:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T14:26:05","slug":"hospital-gives-medicare-patients-cash-back-for-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/32890","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Gives Medicare Patients Cash Back For Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a story done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/October\/26\/tulsa-Medicare-hospital-bundling.aspx\" >Kaiser Health News<\/a> in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-10-25-bundle-payments_N.htm\" >USA Today<\/a>, KHN staff writer Phil Galewitz reports on a hospital in Tulsa, Okla. &#8220;An hour into knee replacement surgery \u2014 with U2&#8217;s I Still Haven\u2019t Found What I&#8217;m Looking For playing in the background \u2014 Dr. Yogesh Mittal smiles as he raises the left leg of his patient, 76-year-old Frank Morrow. While holding Morrow&#8217;s thigh, the surgeon lets the bottom half of the leg fall. &#8216;Look at that,&#8217; he says, pointing to the wide range of motion permitted by the metallic-colored implant. &#8216;He\u2019s going to love this new knee.&#8217; Medicare, the government program that is paying for Morrow&#8217;s surgery, likes it, too (10\/26). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/October\/26\/tulsa-Medicare-hospital-bundling.aspx\" >Read the entire story<\/a>. Watch the related video. <\/p>\n<p>\n      <br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/6GVIA8e_0Lg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story done by Kaiser Health News in collaboration with USA Today, KHN staff writer Phil Galewitz reports on a hospital in Tulsa, Okla. &#8220;An hour into knee replacement surgery \u2014 with U2&#8217;s I Still Haven\u2019t Found What I&#8217;m Looking For playing in the background \u2014 Dr. Yogesh Mittal smiles as he raises the [&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-32890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32890","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=32890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}