Medicare Overpays as Hospital Prices Rise
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.
From the Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015
New Jersey’s Christ Hospital collected $2.93 million in special payments for treating the sickest Medicare patients in 2013, more than quadruple what it had the prior year.
Much of the increase didn’t come from treating more patients or providing more care. It came from higher list prices charged by the Jersey City hospital—markups of at least 60% from the prior year for many patients with common diagnoses, billing records show./p>
List prices charged by hospitals aren’t supposed to matter to Medicare because the government doesn’t pay them. The federal program almost always pays fixed amounts based mostly on patients’ conditions. That is supposed to prevent hospitals from sticking the government with big price hikes.