{"id":603616,"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.com\/index\/603616","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's also helping to test a Medicare payment system. Under the \"bundled\" 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'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\">\n        <strong>Related Article<\/strong>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/OYl6m-a-_v4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2x1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}